- In a “happy birthday” post to SMS, Google called Apple out, saying it’s time to switch to RCS.
- RCS, or Rich Communications Services, would make texting between iPhones and Androids easier.
- The first SMS message was sent 30 years ago, Google said, but phones are “capable of so much more.”
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Google, the owner of Android, is taking yet another dig at Apple in it’s “happy birthday” post to SMS, which turns 30 this year.
“While I’m all for nostalgia, in this case I also want to look in the other direction,” Neena Budhiraja, group product manager for Messages by Google, wrote in the post. “Phones today are capable of so much more; my current phone is a completely different device than my first.”
Budhiraja went on to say what Google’s been campaigning for for a while now: “texting should — and could — be even better than how it started” with RCS.
