Apple wants you to spend upwards of $429 on an iPhone to avoid green bubbles

Date:
Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:30:57 +0000

Description:
Apple doesn't want to fix RCS compatibility problems on iMessage, wants you
to buy your friends and family an iPhone instead.

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If you want to get rid of iMessages green bubbles when youre texting with someone on Android then Tim Cook has the solution: buy them an iPhone.

Following Apples Far Out event where the company announced the iPhone 14 , iPhone 14 Pro , Apple Watch 8 , Apple Watch Ultra , and AirPods Pro 2 Tim Cook attended Vox Medias Code 2022 event . There, Cook was asked about the possibility of iMessage adopting RCS messaging the new standard text-messaging system used by Android smartphones.

Vox Medias LiQuan Hunt complained to Cook about the issues he was having when trying to text his mom. In particular, the videos they shared with each other were always blurry, whereas theyd look great if they were using compatible messaging systems.

To help solve this issue Tim Cook told Hunt, Buy your mom an iPhone. (via The Verge ) The iPhone SE (2022) is the cheapest way to fix iMessage's biggest issue apparently (Image credit: Apple)

If you were to head to the Apple store right now, the cheapest iPhone you could buy is the iPhone SE (2022) for $429 / 449 / AU$719. Thats before you consider factors like insurance and data packages.

We dont know about you, but a $429 workaround to fix iMessage's RCS incompatibility isnt a great option, so why isnt Apple offering an alternative? Analysis: Apple doesnt want to help Android

During the same Vox Media event, when asked about making iMessage RCS-compatible Cook said I dont hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point. As he puts it, because most iPhone users
dont care about RCS compatibility it isnt something that Apple wants to spend time changing.

That response certainly makes a lot of sense. Considering the bevy of messaging apps out there from WhatsApp to Facebook Messenger to Telegram to the many others, there are plenty of workarounds to the iMessage-RCS problem. If you want to send a picture or video, just send it a different way.

But theres a much bigger reason Apple isnt concerned about making iMessage
RCS compatible or including an iMessage app on Android. It has nothing to gain and a lot to lose.

When Apple and Epic Games were at trial over Fortnite being kicked off the
App Store several internal Apple and Epic documents came to light. One was an email from Craig Federighi (Apples senior vice president of software engineering) which read iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones. Apple is incentivized to not support RCS on iMessage, nor make an iMessage Android app (Image credit: Apple)

And Apples approach to getting kids onto the iPhone platform has worked. According to a Fall 2021 report , 87% of US teens surveyed owned an iPhone.
By comparison, across the whole US only 46.9% of smartphone users own an iPhone.

If Gen Zs brand loyalty persists into adulthood perhaps because theyve grown accustomed to Apples way of doing things, love the interoperability of its products, or just generally feel locked into iPhone because of their App
Store purchases then we could see the makeup of the USs smartphone market shift more in Apples favor. These Gen Z adults would be more likely to buy their kids iPhones, and the cycle would continue.

If Tim Cook's comment has convinced you to pick up an iPhone then you might want to use our guide to decide which Apple smartphone is the best iPhone for you. Alternatively, you can check out the iPhone 14 deals we've found so you can get the best price on your iPhone 14 preorder .



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