Here’s the list of US carriers that now support RCS messaging on iPhones:
- AT&T
- C Spire
- Consumer Cellular
- Cricket
- FirstNet
- H20 Wireless
- Metro by T-Mobile
- PureTalk
- Red Pocket
- Spectrum
- T-Mobile
- TracFone / Straight Talk
- US Cellular
- Verizon
- Visible
- Xfinity Mobile
And yet on Android Google hasn’t opened an API for any other app to use RCS, so users are forced to use the Google Messages app. It’s really irritating the hypocrisy.
All this and I still have 2 regular group chats with android friends who’s phones are not using RCS. I went from feeling bad I have an iPhone to being annoyed their androids are not using RCS.
Google voice does not support RCS. Typical Google bullshit
Sent from my Pixel™
What is google voice?
A fellow pixel owner
RCS is so much better than SMS. All praise Apple for inventing such a wonderful thing. I just wish they’d invent some sort of port that I could plug headphones into.
Why downvote
Probably because the article in no way has a tone of “hail apple” and instead is just informative about who can use RCS on which carriers on iPhones. It even says
Previously, iPhone users were left out of the RCS party,
So it’s not denying the fact that Apple didn’t previously support RCS. As pointed out in an above comment, you can only use RCS on Android through Google’s messages app, so it’s not like Android has been some bastion of open standards here, each corporation is driven by profit.