Google is taking its campaign to pressure Apple into supporting RCS in the biggest media market in the world, New York City.
on the iPhone. RCS is the successor to SMS and MMS on Android and allows users to compose and send longer messages, send longer and better-looking video clips, deliver read receipts and typing indicators, provide end-to-end encryption, and more.RCS is similar to Apple's iMessage and here's the thing. If someone not using RCS joins a group chat, all of these wonderful features disappear and the text bubble for the entire group turns from blue to green.
And before you use the excuse that Android turns iOS users' text bubbles green too, remember it is Google that is willing to share RCS with iOS users and not the other way around. Google's website includes pre-written tweets addressed to Apple asking it to support RCS and end the green bubble bullying. And today, Google took its message of unity and healing to the Big Apple. Spotted by, ads have been placed on the LinkNYC kiosks in the City that replaced pay phones . The kiosks offer free Wi-Fi, a tablet-sized display to access city services, maps and directions, a phone for free calls to anywhere in the U.S.
Of course, such services cost money and LinkNYC plasters its booths with advertisements including one from Google designed to look like a text message from Android to Apple. The conversation goes like this:Android: do it for your fans!Apple starts to reply as we see a green typing indicator. On the bottom of one ad is the Android logo with the words"Help Apple #GetTheMessage. Also included is the address to Google's website for this campaign at9to5Google notes that Google will officially kick off this campaign on August 25th on 500 digital billboards in Manhattan and Brooklyn that will run through October 6th. While Google's request isn't ridiculous at all, it will probably be a cold day in hell before Apple gives in to a pressure campaign like this.
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