Google's Android team just launched a new section on the android.com website, and that section is fully dedicated to calling Apple out. The Android team says that the goal is to get Apple to change the way that they handle iMessage and SMS.
These tensions between the iOS and Android teams over messages have been going on for a long while, and for the most part Apple has been completely ignoring not just Google but other companies as well.
Now it seems that the Android team has had enough of being ignored and is now straight-up calling Apple out on almost every available social media site along with the official Android website.
If you don't understand why this is happening, messaging between Apple devices and other companies' devices is pretty bad. If you’ve ever texted an Android or Windows phone from an iPhone, you know that it's extremely slow when sending any messages, images and videos are usually horrible quality and read receipts and other features won't work at all.
Direct quote from the Android team:
It’s time for Apple to fix texting. It’s not about the color of the bubbles. It’s the blurry videos, broken group chats, missing read receipts and typing indicators, no texting over Wi-Fi, and more. These problems exist because Apple refuses to adopt modern texting standards when people with iPhones and Android phones text each other.
It's pretty safe to say that the Android team is fed up, and you should be too. Despite Apple's premium and up-to-date status, they are the only major company that has yet to adopt RCS as a standard. The problem with that is that iPhones still rely on using SMS and MMS for conversations between iPhones and other phones, and at this point, that tech is starting to become quite outdated.
RCS (Rich Communication Services) has been around since 2008 and every other company has it except for Apple, and if Apple switched to it, it would fix every issue with messaging between iPhones and other devices.
However, despite being called out, Apple is Apple and most likely won't do anything until something is negatively affecting profits or driving sales downward.
Check out: https://www.android.com/get-the-message/ for more details.