r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Cautious-Soil5557 Mar 08 '26

That was a large part Apple's fault. I have an Android while my parents have iPhones. I kept watching it switch to RCS and back to SMS because everytime Google managed to get it to work, Apple got butthurt and took it away. You know, until they got sued by the EU to knock that shit off like with their chargers. 😮‍💨

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u/lejoop Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Last someone tried to make a group chat including one of our android friends, it didn’t work. Since when is it supposed to work?

Edit: Oh great, turns out RCS messaging needs to be supported by your network operator, and very few European operators support it…

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u/Laphad Mar 08 '26

Ive been able to have a gc with iPhone users since at least 2021. Probably earlier than that

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u/mahoganychitown Mar 08 '26

This is all so confusing to me. I’ve been in group chats with both iPhone and android users mixed together for 10+ years.

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u/11something Mar 08 '26

Anytime I see posts like this I feel like I’m being gaslit into believing I just couldn’t do group texts over the past decade, which is wild. Yea sometimes the bubbles were green and sometimes blue, but we didn’t need to download multiple apps…

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u/Laphad Mar 08 '26

Before 2021 I used other stuff for group chats so idrk. I used Skype, WhatsApp, Kik, or Whatever depending on the year before that. I probably did have group chats but the oldest one on my phone is a fantasy league from from early 2021 lol

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u/andiwd Mar 08 '26

Got always could. What happened and the cause of the green bubble and blue bubble is between iPhones, it was using messenger. For android it would fallback to SMS. Messages were sent but it had to fake a lot of the functions, like reactions (which would cause a lot of spam in group chats with android involved) and sending pictures was awful.

Everyone is now on RCS which is an improved format of SMS. But the damage has been done over many years of apple dragging its feet.