Android wants to help Apple roll out RCS on iMessage to end the war

Android intends to push Apple by all means to adopt RCS, or Rich Communication Services on iPhone. In another desperate move, an Android executive tried to offer Apple help.

In a tweet posted yesterday, Hiroshi Lockheimer, Vice President of Android, offered to help deploy the RCS standard on his iMessage app. According to him, it is a ” open invitation to people who can fix this problem “And declared” We are here to help “. This message is of course addressed to Apple, which is one of the last manufacturers to refuse to adopt SMS replacements.

For those who don’t know, RCS rely on the data network and no longer the cellular network. Thanks to data, RCS can offer everything that competing instant messengers allow, including iMessage or Facebook Messenger. Indeed, you can for example know at what time your recipient opened your message or see him type his response.

Apple still refuses to adopt RCS

Unlike other Android manufacturers, Apple is still reluctant to embrace RCS. Google had already tried to push Apple to deploy RCS on iMessage, but the latter has always refused to give in.

However, by using RCS, Apple would allow the two ecosystems to exchange messages using end-to-end encryption, which is not currently the case. Indeed, when you send messages from an iPhone to an Android smartphone or vice versa, these use the SMS protocol which is much less secure.

Apple seems unwilling to end the war on Android, even though it is a the security of the personal data of its own users. The American giant had also explained that iMessage would never be released on Android, because it “would do him more harm than good”. If you are using an Android smartphone and want to communicate with an iPhone owner, then we can only advise you touse other applications such as WhatsApp or Signal which offer end-to-end encryption.