I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.
In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.
Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?
I think if you try to have regulators come up with standards for things like airdrop or location sharing, it’s going to be a bad time.
RCS you can just regulate as a telecom feature. It’s contained. It doesn’t touch things like finance (which vary by country).
Regulators don’t even necessarily come up with the standards themselves, they just need to enforce that companies need to make their services interoperable. Actually creating the standard should probably be up to a collaboration of apple, google, and other relevant parties, but regulators should just enforce that it needs to happen
That still does touch on the problem. The RCS group was formed in 2007. Let that sink in.