sahil bloom, who is a vice president at a general investment fund and focuses on investments in the consumer products and services sector, tweeted on Google’s magic eraser feature on the Pixel smartphone. He added that it was a “kinda weird feature” because “all the stuff they were erasing in the ad were the things that make those pictures funny/memorable.”
One of the most followed investors on social media, Bloom further said that Google should “start investing all its engineering resources in figuring out how to make its text appear blue.” iMessage,
To his tweet, Musk replied, “True word lol,” suggesting he is endorsing Bloom’s comments.
Color Code
For those not in the know, the Messages app on the iPhones color codes messages as blue and green. Messages that are colored blue have been sent or received using Apple’s iMessage technology. The green ones are regular text messages sent via SMS.
Apple unveiled iMessage at a time when mobile network carriers used to charge money to send regular texts. iMessage at the time was a way that allowed iPhone users to bypass this cost and send text messages via data networks (cellular or Wi-Fi), essentially removing the cost incurred by users.
In addition, it allowed iPhone users to send unlimited messages and do much more, such as location sharing, walkie-talkie-style voice messages, check message delivery, and even see whether Is someone in the process of texting you back (things that appear later in popular messaging apps like WhatsApp). The only downside to iMessage is that it’s apparently only available to iPhone users.
Google Messages and RCS
Google Messages got some of these features, like new icons for delivered and read status, late last year as part of the RCS, or Rich Chatting Service (RCS). It is a new texting standard from Google that aims to integrate GSMA’s Universal Profile. It essentially adds the same features available in iMessage to all Android smartphones.
Google is taking a dig at Apple for adopting this standard to make Android-iOS communication seamless. However, the latter has refused to adopt RCS. Last year Apple CEO Tim Cook said, “I don’t think our users are asking us to put a lot of energy into this at this point. I’d love to turn you into an iPhone.”