William Gallagher
Again presenting RCS as the solution to getting Apple Messages and Android text users feature parity, Google has tweeted an "unofficial lyric explainer" about Drake's "Texts Go Green" song.
The Rich Communications Service (RCS) has taken a long time to be available to all Android users. And Google's own rivals failed, but it continues to champion RCS — and criticize Apple for ignoring it.
Having previously offered to help out Apple's engineers in implementing RCS, the company has now tweeted a short video set to Drake's music.
#TextsGoGreen hit us different, that's why we had to drop this unofficial lyric explainer video #GetTheMessage pic.twitter.com/dPxt9yZjCG
— Android (@Android) June 18, 2022
It's not exactly high on production values. Over what appears to be a loop of the start of Drake's track, a series of captions explain what it means when "Texts Go Green."
Text messages are most commonly shown in green on an iPhone when they are actual text messages, as in SMS or MMS, rather than Messages. But they can also appear green on an iPhone if that phone's number has been blocked, hence going green.
"If only some super-talented engineering team at Apple would fix this," says the tweeted video.
The tweet was first spotted by Android Police. The site notes that the Drake album with the track achieved a record number of first-day streams for a dance album on Apple Music.
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I can’t help but wonder if Alphabet properly compensated Drake….
Dumb. Texting works fine between iPhone and Android. In my circles, few people have Android. It doesn’t matter much either way.
Google is such a joke! Let's poke fun at the competitor for having had superior product for a long time, and try to get congress to force them to use our crap! Trolls gonna troll
Who cares? Why are they so fucking obsessed with this colors issue? They probably have an entire team assigned to it. Aren’t there more important things to fix in the world? Get a life, ffs.