what they're doing is equivalent to duckduckgo asking them to use google's search engine capabilities for their searches or if Vimeo asked Youtube to show their channels on their app because google search engine and YouTube are the de facto sites for these services.
you don't use Vimeo because no one is there
you use google because it's the best
and google is afraid of apple they know what happens when they enter an industry
Apple has an agreement with Google that it won't develop its own internet search engine so long as Google pays it to remain the default option in...
www.macrumors.com
more people have iPhones than androids so google is feeling the heat on the green bubble thing. So they're trying to guilt trip apple into doing this. then you add onto the fact that teenagers are the most impacted on this since apple kills the group chats feature once one android is in the mix. They are losing this war and have lost for years.
they're basically telling apple to get rid of an advantage that sells these phones.
the blue bubble is a marketing advantage. it tells everyone you text that hey I have an iPhone too and yeah it's stupid but so is most of the stuff in the world right now.
this is why they're hiring celebs to do it because they need the public to get apple to do it
so I understand why apple is saying hell no
also the way apple works. I bet they have some new way of doing RCS that will still hinder communication between apple and android.
this is the same fight people have with the lightning cable.