The colour of chat bubbles is extraordinarily essential to individuals within the US for some purpose. Blue is sweet, inexperienced is poor – or one thing like that, proper? We do not know, we’re from Europe, and over right here individuals have WhatsApp and Telegram and Fb Messenger. However within the US, bubbles matter.
And they’ll proceed to, sadly, even with right now’s groundbreaking announcement from Apple. The corporate lastly caved and revealed that it plans to undertake RCS in iOS from subsequent 12 months. RCS, as you could know, is the iMessage-like commonplace that works on prime 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 said it, we’re keen to wager that messages despatched through RCS will nonetheless get inexperienced bubbles.
This is what an Apple spokesperson advised 9to5Mac:
Later subsequent 12 months, we shall be including help for RCS Common Profile, the usual as at present revealed by the GSM Affiliation. We consider RCS Common Profile will provide a greater interoperability expertise when in comparison with SMS or MMS. This may work alongside iMessage, which can 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, curiously, will nonetheless current you with the one option to get blue bubbles from an Android gadget with its lately unveiled Nothing Chats.
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