Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android Messages as the default texting app on all Android phones it sells. The Verge says it’s the final step for making RCS Chat — the next-gen standard designed to replace SMS — the default experience for Android. But what of the iPhone?
Apple has announced no plans to adopt RCS messaging yet. So what is RCS? Here’s a description from Digital Trends:
Despite the popularity of SMS messaging, some people need more than it’s capable of providing. To make the service more valuable and competitive with popular, feature-rich messaging apps, smartphone manufacturers, carriers, and the cell phone industry’s governing agencies developed the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol (otherwise called RCS Chat), which is designed as a modern take on texting that rolls features from