We’re more than halfway through November now, meaning the Black Friday deals are truly starting to stack up. Amazon kicked off its sale on Friday, with retailers like Currys, Argos and Very having already begun dropping deals in the weeks prior to this. Among all of the deal chaos, a few tech companies still found … [Read more…]
OPINION: Apple this week shocked the tech world by finally conceding in a long-running battle between it and Android giant Google to bring RCS support to iPhones. It’s something Apple has refused to do for the past few years, but it’ll finally be coming to iPhones sometime in 2024. That’s great news for Android and … [Read more…]
Apple caving into adopting the RCS messaging standard for iPhone to Android text conversations doesn’t mean the fabled green bubbles are going anywhere. While confirming that the RCS Universal Profile will be replace SMS and MMS messages for cross-platform conversations in 2024, Apple also said those texts will be represented by green bubbles in chat … [Read more…]
Google ditched the classic SMS/MMS messaging protocol with RCS, which makes texting other Android users feel a lot more streamlined – and after literally years of campaigning from Google, Apple is finally going to adopt it too. Text messages are still a popular way of communication, although it seems like they are being slowly overtaken … [Read more…]
Apple will adopt the RCS messaging standard in late 2024, the company has surprisingly revealed. In news that’ll delight competitors like Google, which has long campaigned for Apple to adapt RCS to level the messaging playing field, Apple says the move will unlock better interoperability between iPhone and Android users. In a statement, the Apple … [Read more…]