<story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&amp;#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></item><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar.  Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have &lt;i&gt;loudly&lt;/i&gt; proclaimed that having a &amp;quot;green bubble&amp;quot; would be &lt;i&gt;worse than death&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onlyrealcuzzo</author><text>Android is ~72% of the global market: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&amp;#x2F;os-market-share&amp;#x2F;mobile&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gs.statcounter.com&amp;#x2F;os-market-share&amp;#x2F;mobile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;So, yes.</text></comment>
<story><title>87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone</title><url>https://www.pipersandler.com/1col.aspx?id=6216</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&amp;#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></item><item><author>m348e912</author><text>(iPhone user here) It does seem to me that Apple isn&amp;#x27;t playing fair and this is no longer the technical issue it once was. Apple has so far refused to adopt RCS (the successor to SMS and MMS) which is now an industry standard for text messaging. Because of that, aside from the green bubble, the text messaging experience with non-iPhone users is subpar.  Images and videos are compressed and things like tapback and group texts just stink.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.android.com&amp;#x2F;get-the-message&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>My two oldest children - 13 and 15 - have &lt;i&gt;loudly&lt;/i&gt; proclaimed that having a &amp;quot;green bubble&amp;quot; would be &lt;i&gt;worse than death&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lijogdfljk</author><text>Does the iPhone have a standard that other phones could adopt? Ie is your argument that Apple has been pushing an alternate standard, but Google is rejecting it? If so what is it?</text></comment>