<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>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>dalyons</author><text>RCS is awful. It’s an out-of-date, encumbered “standard” with poor global commonality in adoption.  It exists for one reason only - because US carriers wanted some way to keep charging per message like their old sms cash cow, instead of being reduced to just proving dumb internet piping.  Despite that, the carriers couldnt even agree amongst themselves on the &amp;quot;standard&amp;quot; RCS features to deploy for 10 years or so, until google co-opted the effort for their own goals semi-recently. 
Let it die.</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>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>nsxwolf</author><text>Given the iPhone&amp;#x27;s marketshare, is it RCS really the industry standard?</text></comment>