Nonetheless, Google has been working to enhance iOS and Android messaging compatibility, and in a blog post, it made another effort to get Apple on board with RCS. “Today, all of the major cell carriers and manufacturers — except Apple — have accepted RCS as the standard,” Messages group product manager Neena Budhiraja wrote. “Apple refuses to implement RCS and continues to depend on SMS when iPhone users contact Android phone users, implying that their messaging is stuck in the 1990s.”
Companies are still working on methods to make iMessage available on other devices. Sunbird’s engineers claim to have gotten iMessage to function on Android only last week.
