Time and time again, someone urges Apple to embrace RCS and implement it into iMessage so that the green and blue bubble divide ends. The latest effort comes in the form of a 30-second clip by Samsung. It's a play on an Android phone chatting with an iPhone, discussing Apple's stubbornness to support RCS in iMessage. Google developed RCS to be a universal standard to replace SMS (and remove the need for a carrier to be involved). Since then Android as a whole has been trying to get Apple to allow RCS into iMessage. But of course that would mean Apple giving up on a big roadblock to...

Apple has been avoiding the adoption of RCS messages ever since Google introduced the standard, but now iPhone users finally can use the service through a third-party app Beeper. The application aims to bundle all messaging systems under one roof, and its latest update added Google Messages to the iPhone. RCS is short for Rich Communication Services and brings features such as encryption, read and typing indications, which is Google's own solution for messages. Apple users have to enable the feat by downloading the latest version of Beeper Desktop and then heading to the settings...