On: 87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

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That's only if you're using google's SMS app. Many phones ship with something else (like Samsung's) as the default.

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Samsung has started to ship Google Messages as the default:

https://9to5google.com/2022/02/14/google-messages-samsung-ga...

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Isn't this because they're trying to make RCS universal and Google has that API locked down from anyone else using it while claiming "RCS is a universal open standard" lol. Typical "do no good" stance from the goog

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No reason Samsung can’t do the same.

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Doesn't really matter whether they could do the same if they don't.

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That finally explains why I saw so many articles about how "Google fixed iphone responses on Android", but I never saw any evidence for it on mine.