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Google shamelessly keeps trying to take credit for Apple adding RCS
Apparently, Google's the reason iOS 18 supports RCS — according to itself.
That's why Google famously paid for ad spots against Apple, trying to convince the company to add RCS to the iPhone and improve the quality of communication between iOS and Android users. (Image credit: Andrew Myrick / Android Central)I put my main SIM in the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold shortly before iOS was publicly released and instantly noticed a few of my chats with tech enthusiast friends switched to RCS. (Image credit: Apoorva Bhardwaj / Android Central)Put aside Google's dubious claim to RCS support on iPhone, and it has a few solid reasons for stating that it's much easier to switch between platforms.
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