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Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea of adopting RCS messaging to put an end to the green bubbles that surround messages when iPhone users text someone on an Android device.
“I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook said when asked how Apple founder Steve Jobs would feel about using the RCS standard at Vox Media’s Code 2022 event on Wednesday night.
But the person who asked the question, Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt, came back with the very valid complaint that his mother can’t see the videos he sends her due to the lack of interoperability between iMessage and RCS, a next-generation messaging system that allows higher-quality images and photos to be sent. If you’ve ever tried to send a video…
