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We asked, you told us: RCS doesn’t stand a chance in the messaging game
June 22, 2025
Google criticized Apple last week for taking advantage of peer pressure around the iMessage app and the green bubble phenomenon. The companycalled on Appleto switch to the more modernRCSprotocol for Android users in iMessage, as opposed to the archaic SMS standard.
Our own Rita El Khoury felt that RCSwon’t solve Google’s messaging problems. But what do readers think of RCS and its prospects in the messaging landscape? Here’s how you voted in this poll.
In the messaging game, does RCS stand a chance?
The poll gained over 2,400 votes after it was posted inside our opinion piece, and it turns out that almost half of all respondents (49.5%) think RCS doesn’t stand a chance at all in the messaging landscape.
It’s easy to see why people would take this stance, as RCS still has its share of problems (such as carrier support) and, perhaps more importantly, the rest of the world switched to IM apps a long time ago.
Almost 28% of polled readers said “maybe, but too many factors are at play.” In other words, some readers still think there’s an opening for RCS to succeed, but there are several hurdles in the way.
Meanwhile, 14.10% of respondents in the US think RCS is the future, while almost 9% of polled readers outside the US think it’s the future (a combined total of almost 23%). We can understand this viewpoint, as SMS is still heavily in use in the US, for example.
To put it all in perspective, just over 75% of voters think RCS either won’t succeed or that it has significant challenges to overcome before it achieves success.
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