This is a legitimately crazy take, yes the differentiations are less but how we got there isn’t so altruistic

I’m firmly in the Apple ecosystem and every one of those examples were not Apple’s unilateral decision

I think seeing the noose circling around both Apple and Google’s necks better explains the quagmire that Google is in

Apple was getting ahead of a European consumer protection ruling to switch to a single interoperable cable, USBC was there

Apple and Google worked to make RCS better for years, as Apple was ignoring it and Google was using a non-standard RCS