For so long, Apple has had a sizeable lead over Google when it comes to texting, with iMessage featuring a number of exclusive features such as per-message emoji reactions and end-to-end encryption. In response, Google released RCS, bringing the messaging experience on Android much closer to that of Apple. However, one big problem that remained unresolved was cross-platform texting. For every reaction on iMessage, the same message is returned again to the other Android user, prefixed by their reaction, clogging up the chat thread with meaninglessly long messages, just because it’s not an iPhone-to-iPhone conversation. Well, it looks like those days will be over pretty soon. In fact, you could end this peril as soon as now.
“Chat” RCS protocol by Google could make Android Messages an iMessage competitor
Yesterday, Dieter Bohn of The Verge got an exclusive update on Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess. That big fix being “Chat.” Google plans on launching “Chat,” the RCS-based iMessage alternative, in the near future; announcing it potentially on stage on May 8th at Google I/O.
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Can Android Messages unify Google’s biggest problem?
Google I/O is coming up in a couple of months, and I think now’s a fair time to discuss messaging in the Android ecosystem.
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