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Google teasingly offers to ‘help’ Apple switch to RCS text messages

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<p>Although we tend to think of text messaging and SMS as synonyms, that’s not quite the case. SMS (short messaging service) is simply the original technical standard for text messages. In recent years, there’s been a drive to switch to RCS (rich communications services, or rich communications suite), a more sophisticated text messaging standard.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened, mostly due to the rivalry between <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/aapl/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Apple[/url] and <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/google/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Google[/url], and that’s something Google wants to change … </p>
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