Google says today, the messages app has half a billion, monthly active users with RCS, but even though RCS has been available for a couple years now, it hasn't reached the same level of ubiquity among Android users, as iMessage has with iPhone users. Speaker 1: RCS is available through Google's messages app, and it fully rolled out to users. But as a result it's for now, primarily within Android devices, Google has been the main champion of it raising support among us phone carriers and carriers around the world. Speaker 2: It's been slowly developed to potentially replace how text messages are sent by default between a large variety of phones for now. See red receipts and typing indicators and add and remove people from group chats. RCS includes a lot of the same features as iMessage, like the ability to chat over wifi or mobile data, send in receive high resolution photos and videos. It replaces SMS or short message service, a text messaging standard that's been used since the nineties and was long overdue for an overhaul. It's essentially the next generation of texting for Android. It's called RCS or rich communication services. Meanwhile, I'd been stuck with the messaging platform that hadn't been updated in more than two decades, and that made photos and videos look like they'd been taken in 2008, but finally, a new texting protocol has arrived to bring Android phones into the 21st century. Speaker 1: As a decade long Android user, I have sat on the outskirts and watched all my friends with iPhones, use iMessage to send high resolution photos and videos and react to each other's messages.

I would pay to use imessage on android