Compared to the simplicity and feature-rich nature of Apple’s iMessage, the texting and messaging situation confronting Android users has been a certifiable mess for years now. Google has trotted out one service after another, such that no one standard has really caught fire across the ecosystem in the same way that any iMessage user can message any other iMessage user with ease and with the same bells and whistles included.
Google’s new messaging service called Chat is an attempt to change all that — to offer Android users a texting option comparable to iMessage and with many of its standard features, like read receipts and typing indicators, those dots that let you know someone is in the process of responding to you. Moreover, any Android phone with the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol enabled can use Google Chat, which has now finally arrived in the US.
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Google’s iMessage rival finally comes to the US, but it’s still got a long way to go originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 17:15:48 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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