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Android to Android, sure.
But Apple and Google refuse to play nicely with each other, so Android to Iphone or Iphone to Android both suck.
It's not a lack of capability, it's the refusal to implement it to try and force users to pick a side.
To be fair, Google’s messaging plans and implementations have been all over the place for a decade. Apple still should have been more proactive. They promised iMessage would come to Android until they realized how much of a moat it became for their business.
I don't really care which of them is responsible for it not working decently, that's why I didn't point the finger at one in particular.
Point is, it's between these two companies to agree on a solution that works for both of them and actually implement it. Yet after all this time, they still haven't to the detriment of consumers globally.
I'll believe the IOS RCS implementation when it's actually released. Promises from corporations are worthless.
Google chat, or whatever they call it now, fixed that.
If you're talking about RCS, androids newer native messaging system, no apple has not implemented that yet.
There has always been dozens of messaging apps users can use, including Google Chat, but they are all seprate apps that both you and the recipient have to choose to install and use. That's the main problem.
The goal is to have the native messaging apps on both platforms be able to speak to each other with the same quality right out of the box, just as they can within the same platform right now (apple to apple, and android to android).