Google Says RCS Messaging Just Hit a Big Milestone

Google spent a agelong portion selling RCS arsenic an SMS killer, and passively-aggressively pressuring Apple into adopting it excessively arsenic an SMS replacement nether its ain iMessage app. It seems similar efforts person paid off, due to the fact that RCS seems to beryllium truly popular.

Google has conscionable announced an absorbing statistic—about a cardinal RCS messages are sent wrong the US unsocial each azygous day. This includes radical chats arsenic good arsenic regular, one-on-one chats, and it means RCS is being utilized wide by users retired determination arsenic their default messaging option. To enactment this into perspective, SMS, astatine its tallness backmost successful 2011, moved a whopping 6.3 cardinal messages each day. This is simply a sixth of that, but it's inactive beauteous bully considering that RCS is attempting to regenerate SMS, and considering however there's a immense assortment of messaging options retired there, including Apple's iMessage, which is inactive the main messaging method for Apple users.

This came not lone aft Google helped marque RCS wide disposable to each Android phones via the Google Messages app, but besides aft Apple added RCS enactment to iPhones with iOS 18. Now, erstwhile you're texting an Android idiosyncratic from an iPhone, acknowledgment to wide RCS availability connected the Android broadside of the pond, you'll inactive spot a greenish bubble, but there's a bully accidental that it volition default to RCS alternatively than SMS. This allows for multimedia sending, work receipts, typing indicators, and possibly much importantly, not-broken radical chats. RCS astir apt got a decent boost pursuing Apple adopting it—while iMessage inactive supports a batch of different Apple-only features, RCS astatine slightest gets the basics right, truthful it doesn't get your friends to exclude you from their radical chats.

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It's not instantly wide however it stacks up compared to iMessage oregon different messaging apps specified arsenic WhatsApp, which are vastly much popular—as a reminder, iMessage is lone truly "popular" successful the US, and astir radical usage WhatsApp globally, truthful it's estimated by immoderate that a staggering 140 cardinal messages are sent done that level each day. RCS, of course, doesn't get adjacent adjacent that, though I'm definite that we mightiness beryllium capable to adhd a fewer cardinal messages to the statistic Google shared by counting successful planetary users—that 1 cardinal fig is conscionable successful the US.

Still, it's large quality for the adoption of RCS, and it means that SMS, portion it mightiness not beryllium afloat dormant everyplace and is inactive actively utilized successful immoderate places, mightiness beryllium astir to scope its long-overdue demise.

Source: Google