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I don't often come to this site but this has to be one of the strangest articles I've read in the tech space. 

The strangest part is that it attacks RCS as if it is a Google product. 

"It is Google's problem that Android users don't have the same benefit by default." Android users do have it by default. Not with iOS users though. That's the entire point of their campaign. 

RCS does not need to replace iMessage. iMessage just needs to fallback to RCS, which will then fallback to SMS. Apple can modify the RCS UP spec if they wanted to. They collaborated with the GSMA on the eSIM spec. They don't even need to be a member of the GSMA to have a say considering their size and influence. But note that even Amazon and AMD are members, among dozens of other companies.

It's a really naive take that doesn't once mention the GSMA, the Universal Profile spec, and a better solution for issues such as people excluding others because of their device due to the lack of interoperability. 

I don't like Google but underdogs often do things that consumers like so that they can make money. Google being an underdog in messaging. I dislike quite a few things about RCS and how Google has implemented it on Android, but on iOS it's only an improvement over SMS. 

There's even people comparing RCS to Flash. 🥴 I may be wasting my time here. It's really weird that I'm making a comment like this after googling about this but yeah.

And yes, WebGPU is a good example of Apple working with Google (and Mozilla) for cross platform interoperability!! (even though it has its own issues that I won't go into here lol) - let's not forget that Apple is still full-steam with only Metal T.T