WhatsApp Will No Longer Butcher Image Quality on iOS

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You no longer have to worry about sending low-quality images on WhatsApp. Well, at least on iPhone.

Google Celebrates 1 Billion RCS Users With a Feature Drop for Green Bubbles

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Google’s bet on RCS is paying off, or at least that’s what it wants us to think.

Android iMessage-Style Messaging App Sunbird Shuts Down Over Serious Privacy Concerns

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This week brought a series of disasters (and quite some embarrassment) to Android messaging apps that were trying hard to break the infamous green-blue bubble barrier between Android and Apple users. It started with the failure of Nothing Chats and recently extended to the shutdown of Sunbird.

Nothing's Failed iMessages Workaround Was Too Good To Be True

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Last week was certainly exciting for the prospect of green and blue bubbles finding peace and harmony in the chat realm, though that excitement was a bit premature in Nothing’s case.

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Apple is going to make texting between iPhones and Android a lot less awful starting next year

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iPhone is set to start supporting RCS messaging in 2024, which will make cross-platform texting a much smoother process.

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The Next iPhone Will Have an Easier Time Texting Android's Green Bubbles

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Could it be? Is Apple finally relenting and letting Android users frolic in its walled garden? 9to5Mac reports that an Apple spokesperson has revealed that RCS support is on the docket for next year’s iPhone launch.

Blue texting bubbles are coming to this Android phone — but there's a catch

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An image of Nothing's messaging app for the Phone 2 that gives access to iMessage's famous blue texting bubbles.

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Nothing Phone (2) Offers Possible Solution to Blue, Green Bubble Drama

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The mobile class divide between the iPhone blue bubble and the Android green bubble might need regulators to settle things in the future, but Nothing has another s

Apple Will Reportedly Appeal EU's Gatekeeping Claims

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Apple will dispute the European Union’s latest crackdown on Big Tech by appealing the decision to regulate iMessage and the App Store as anticompetitive services, according to

Getting mocked for your green Android text bubbles to iPhone users could be a thing of the past in Europe if Google gets its way

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Non-iPhone users can be singled out by the green text bubble.

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