Google says 1 billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US following iPhone adoption

Google says 1 billion RCS messages are sent daily in the US following iPhone adoption

According to Google, there are now over 1 billion RCS messages sent daily in the US following widespread Android and iOS adoption.

Google announces 1B+ RCS messages sent in the U.S. daily

During the Android Show leading up to Google I/O, Google on Tuesday offered a brief update on the adoption of the RCS (Rich Communication Services)

For years, Google has been trying to get Apple to use the SMS successor Rich Communication Services, which is now bearing fruit.

Google reports that over a billion RCS messages are now sent daily in the United States

Not too long ago, texting across phones felt like crossing a language barrier. If you were on iPhone and your friends have an Android, you knew the drill—green bubble, blurry media videos, broken group threads, and that one person who kept reacting to your messages with “Emma loved ‘See you soon!’” instead of a love emoji. It was messy.It wasn’t just a technical gap; it became this weird cultural thing, especially in the U.S., where having an iP…

Google can finally welcome its efforts. After years of promoting RCS as a modern successor to SMS, Mountain View announces an impressive figure: more than one billion RCS messages are now sent every day in the United States alone. A figure that confirms that RCS (Rich Communication Services), for a long time, is [...] Read more One billion RCS a day in the United States! Is SMS dead? appeared first on BlogNT: the Blog of New Technologies.

RCS messaging surges past 1 billion daily in U.S. after Apple embrace - Mobile Marketing Reads

Google reports that over 1 billion RCS messages are now being exchanged daily in the United States alone.