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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Google’s RCS versus Apple’s iMessage; Starlink’s cat warmers; and a startup that wants to defeat menopause
Description: Messaging wars — Google’s RCS versus Apple’s iMessage
A recent Wall Street Journal feature on how teens in the US are using Apple’s iMessage as a status symbol spotlighted another front on which the iPhone maker is at loggerheads with Google—messaging. Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Android, tweeted that Apple is deliberately holding back from supporting the RCS, or rich communication services, on its walled-in iMessage platform.
RCS was originally developed by GSMA, the telecom operators’ global industry group, but Google bought an RCS provider in 2015 and developed and popularised it as the next...