The colour of chat bubbles is extraordinarily vital to folks within the US for some purpose. Blue is nice, inexperienced is poor – or one thing like that, proper? We do not know, we’re from Europe, and over right here folks have WhatsApp and Telegram and Fb Messenger. However within the US, bubbles matter.
And they’re going to proceed to, sadly, even with at the moment’s groundbreaking announcement from Apple. The corporate lastly caved and revealed that it plans to undertake RCS in iOS from subsequent yr. RCS, as chances are you’ll know, is the iMessage-like normal that works on high of SMS.
However, importantly, it is not iMessage. Apple will combine RCS into iPhones, however iMessage will nonetheless exist and, whereas it hasn’t outright acknowledged it, we’re keen to wager that messages despatched through RCS will nonetheless get inexperienced bubbles.
This is what an Apple spokesperson informed 9to5Mac:
Later subsequent yr, we shall be including assist for RCS Common Profile, the usual as at present revealed by the GSM Affiliation. We consider RCS Common Profile will supply a greater interoperability expertise when in comparison with SMS or MMS. This can work alongside iMessage, which is able to proceed to be the most effective and most safe messaging expertise for Apple customers.
RCS will carry many iMessage-like options to cross-platform messaging between iPhones and Androids: learn receipts, typing indicators, top quality picture and video sharing, location sharing, the works.
And in the long run it nonetheless will not matter, as a result of the bubbles will proceed to be inexperienced. So it can all be for Nothing – which, apparently, will nonetheless current you with the one method to get blue bubbles from an Android gadget with its just lately unveiled Nothing Chats.
