AFanBoi

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It's hilarious that a majority of the comments on this post (and actually the post itself) have no idea of the actual issue trying to be addressed by Google.
The issue is compression due to MMS (or multimedia message service) a messaging standard used by mobile devices to send and receive messages. iPhones use iMessage (an apple proprietary standard) to send messages to other iPhones. However, apple, in their walled garden autocracy, does not permit other manufacturers to use this standard in their messaging app. Because of this, when an iPhone user sends a message to a NON-iPhone, the message will use SMS or MMS to transmit the message (SMS is used for text only messages, 160 character limit, no multimedia, MMS is used for over 160 character messages or if multimedia i.e. image or video is included). The issue is that MMS has a file size (usually defined by your mobile carrier and usually around 300kB) so the image sent by the iPhone to an Android phone (which would use MMS protocol) would be compressed from it's original size and quality to a pixelated 300kB mess.
This has nothing to do with "our cameras are better" or the aforementioned "Photo Unblur" feature (which uses machine learning to apply filters and smoothing to an image) ALREADY available on Pixel devices.

Yes, the use of blue and green bubbles was silly as this is not how it would actually look on Android, however, this is part of their marketing and is simply used to differentiate the iPhone user from the Android user. 

Sources -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service
support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

danox said:

AFanBoi said:

Registered just to make this comment..
It's hilarious that a majority of the comments on this post (and actually the post itself) have no idea of the actual issue trying to be addressed by Google.
The issue is compression due to MMS (or multimedia message service) a messaging standard used by mobile devices to send and receive messages. iPhones use iMessage (an apple proprietary standard) to send messages to other iPhones. However, apple, in their walled garden autocracy, does not permit other manufacturers to use this standard in their messaging app. Because of this, when an iPhone user sends a message to a NON-iPhone, the message will use SMS or MMS to transmit the message (SMS is used for text only messages, 160 character limit, no multimedia, MMS is used for over 160 character messages or if multimedia i.e. image or video is included). The issue is that MMS has a file size (usually defined by your mobile carrier and usually around 300kB) so the image sent by the iPhone to an Android phone (which would use MMS protocol) would be compressed from it's original size and quality to a pixelated 300kB mess.
This has nothing to do with "our cameras are better" or the aforementioned "Photo Unblur" feature (which uses machine learning to apply filters and smoothing to an image) ALREADY available on Pixel devices.

Yes, the use of blue and green bubbles was silly as this is not how it would actually look on Android, however, this is part of their marketing and is simply used to differentiate the iPhone user from the Android user. 

Sources -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service
support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006

It isn’t Apple’s job to help Google in anyway they are competitors and therefore you can be different, there is no need to be the same. iMessage was created by Apple to give the iPhone a messaging system that was supported among all of its devices. None of the other messaging programs/systems supported Apple, so Apple had to build something as usual from the ground up. That’s what happens when you are not a monopoly in any market something that consistently gets forgotten.

Apple currently has the same problem they had 10-12 years ago in AAA games, but you don’t find Apple crying about it publicly or petitioning the government to re-shuffle the deck just for Apple.

As usual, Apple probably is just gonna roll up its leaves and get busy, however creating something, a new ecosystem hardware and software from scratch takes time. A long-term that approach is has been very profitable for Apple.

Did I say anywhere it was Apple's fault? While there are probably more benefits to building an open system like RCS, there are obvious benefits to a closed system like Apple's as well; mainly the benefit of increased security. While Tim Apple's "just get your grandma an iPhone" approach might work for some, there are MILLIONS of people to whom iPhones are simply not an option. For those people, Google is trying to make the experience the best they can.