Google Vice President for Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Play and Phoot, Hiroshi Lockheimer has several hard words for Apple on the Imessage policy.
In a tweet, Lockheimer said that Apple did not accept RCS standards because they wanted to keep the IMESSAGE locking system intact.
“Lock-in Imessage Apple is a documented strategy.
Using peer pressure and intimidation as a way to sell products is not a smile for companies that have humanity and equity as the core part of their marketing.
This standard is today to fix it,” he tweeted to quote stories Wall Street Journal (WSJ) about the dominance of Apple iMessage among “army texting tweens”.
RCS stands for rich communication services, messaging protocols, intended as substitutes for SMS on Android devices.
It introduces Android users to some of the main features of Apple iMessage such as Read Receipts, typing bubbles and more.
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https://t.co/ualQYTPCB0- Hiroshi Lockheimer (@Lockheimer) 1641662322000 for those who are unconscious, with “documented”, Lockheimer seems to indicate documents and comments Exit during the battle of the Epic Maker Fortnite Maker.
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“Lockheimer’s tweet has been retweeted by other Googlers including Dave Burke, VP company for engineering for Android and Covid exposure notifications.
Google’s official Twitter for Android also quotes Lockhemier’s tweet and said, “Imessage should not benefit from intimidation.
SMS must unite us, and the solution is there.
Let’s fix this as an industry.” IMessage should not benefit from intimidation.
SMS must unite us, and the solution is there.
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https://t.co/P7FD3YJZZH- Android (@android) 1641664778000This This is not the first time Google senior executive Lockheimer has tweeting about the iMessage adopting RCS.
“The group chat does not need to be destroyed in this way.
There is a very clear solution.
This is an open invitation to people who can make this true: We are here to help,” Lockheimer Tweeted in October last year.
The WSJ story says that the Apple Imessage Dominace has caused young Android users to feel excrivered when communicating with iOS users.
The WSJ report said that the Apple color code system has caused adolescents to mock those who have an Android handset.
It citizes a survey that claims that 87 percent of US teenagers are surprising to have an iPhone.
In Apple iOS devices, messages received from non-iOS users appear in green, while those from iPhone users appear in blue.
The WSJ story has an interview where one of the students was asked if he was dating someone who owned an Android smartphone.
He replied, “I’m like,” Geez, the text is green, “and my sister really went ‘ew, it was dirty.”