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If Google stuck with Hangouts, messaging between Android and iPhone would still suck

# Hangouts, our savior...not really

A lot of people bring up that if Google had stuck to one app, like Hangouts, then the Android-to-iPhone messaging woes would be solved. Suppose Hangouts was Google's sole messaging app in 2022. Here's how a conversation from any point from 2013 to 2022 would look like in the US:

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>Me: Texting with you sucks. Can you download Hangouts?
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>iPhone user: Sorry. I don't wanna download another app. I'd only be using it with you.

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"I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy" into RCS, says Tim Cook in response to a question at Code. "I would love to convert you to an iPhone." — "I can't send my mom certain videos," says the questioner. — "Buy your mom an iPhone," says Tim
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The irony of RCS shaming

The irony of Google shaming Apple for not implementing RCS while not supporting it themselves. Google Voice does not support RCS and, as far as I know, Google does not currently plan on changing that any time soon. Considering that it is a data based service (like iMessage) that works on multiple devices (like iMessage and unlike WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.) and provides free messaging service (like iMessage) -- I think it's ironic that Google chooses to ignore the log in its own eye here.
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