Tim Cook says ‘buy your mom an iPhone’ if you want to end green bubbles
Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea of adopting RCS messaging to put an end to the green bubbles that surround messages when iPhone users text someone on an Android device.
“I don’t hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that at this point,” Cook said when asked how Apple founder Steve Jobs would feel about using the RCS standard in iMessage during Vox Media’s Code 2022 event on Wednesday night. Instead, Cook said, “I would love to convert you to an iPhone.”
Video of the panel is now available on YouTube, and you can watch it by clicking here or where it is embedded above, and cued up to the question at the 1 hour, 15-second mark.
But the person who asked the question, Vox Media’s LiQuan Hunt, came back with a valid...