US EditionGoogle says 1 billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US following iPhone adoption
- Apple adopted RCS messaging support for iPhones with the release of iOS 18 in fall 2024, enabling cross-platform communication in the US.
- Apple's adoption followed years of Google's advocacy and regulatory pressure mainly from the European Union tied to the Digital Markets Act.
- Following Apple's inclusion, Google reported that over one billion RCS messages are now sent daily in the US via Google Messages with RCS enabled.
- Google called this development "a game changer for messaging," highlighting enhanced features like typing indicators, read receipts, and scam protection.
- This milestone suggests RCS is gaining momentum as a successor to SMS, improving messaging quality across Android and iPhone while further enhancements are anticipated.
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For years, Google has been trying to get Apple to use the SMS successor Rich Communication Services, which is now bearing fruit.
Google reports that over a billion RCS messages are now sent daily in the United States
Not too long ago, texting across phones felt like crossing a language barrier. If you were on iPhone and your friends have an Android, you knew the drill—green bubble, blurry media videos, broken group threads, and that one person who kept reacting to your messages with “Emma loved ‘See you soon!’” instead of a love emoji. It was messy.It wasn’t just a technical gap; it became this weird cultural thing, especially in the U.S., where having an iP…
Google can finally welcome its efforts. After years of promoting RCS as a modern successor to SMS, Mountain View announces an impressive figure: more than one billion RCS messages are now sent every day in the United States alone. A figure that confirms that RCS (Rich Communication Services), for a long time, is [...] Read more One billion RCS a day in the United States! Is SMS dead? appeared first on BlogNT: the Blog of New Technologies.
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