Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you wish to finish inexperienced bubbles

Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the concept of adopting RCS messaging to place an finish to the inexperienced bubbles that encompass messages when iPhone customers textual content somebody on an Android system.

“I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook stated when requested how Apple founder Steve Jobs would really feel about utilizing the RCS customary at Vox Media’s Code 2022 occasion on Wednesday night time.

But the one who requested the query, Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt, got here again with the very legitimate grievance that his mom can’t see the movies he sends her because of the lack of interoperability between iMessage and RCS, a next-generation messaging system that enables higher-quality photographs and pictures to be despatched. If you’ve ever tried to ship a video from Android to iOS (or vice versa) you’ll know that your movies come out utterly fuzzy on the opposite finish. Cook’s response to this fairly annoying challenge? “Buy your mom an iPhone.”

While it might appear foolish, the bubble coloration in iMessage that distinguishes Android (inexperienced) customers from fellow iPhone customers (blue) has grow to be a degree of competition. Google’s marketing campaign to publicly disgrace Apple into adopting the usual has clearly had no impact on Cook, who’s publicly specializing in opinions from individuals who have iPhones. Of course, there are different causes to keep away from including RCS — emails unearthed within the Epic trial confirmed Apple senior vp of software program engineering Craig Federighi saying, “iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones.”