Thieves return stolen Android because it’s not an iPhone – I guess they don’t care about RCS

Google scored a lukewarm victory against Apple a few weeks ago when the latter announced iMessage will soon support RCS messaging. However, iMessages will remain blue and encrypted, while RCS messages will stay green and unencrypted. Apple will only support the RCS standard the GSMA developed, not the proprietary RCS product that Google operates.

I said time and again that Google has bigger problems than the iMessage bubble war it's fighting in an effort to make Android as appealing as the iPhone. Getting Apple to support RCS will not stop the iPhone from being the more coveted product.

There's no better proof of that than the story of a couple of thieves bringing back a stolen Android handset because it wasn't an iPhone. I guess they haven't heard about Android users finally being able to text iPhone users via RCS.

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