We all know how frustrating it can be when an Android user joins a group message. The proverbial green bubble arrives to end the fun. All the sudden sharing images and videos can become difficult or impossible. Messages get lost or never arrive, and the overall iMessage experience becomes subpar and annoying.

The fix is RCS and it has been around since 2008, but Apple refuses to implement this on the iPhone to give their users the very best experience. Instead they prefer to purposefully make the iMessage experience inferior in hopes that people will buy more iPhones or at least that is exactly what Tim Cook the CEO of Apple recently suggested to an interviewer when asked what to do about green bubbles on his mom's phone. "Buy your Mom an iPhone". 

He also stated, "I don't hear our users asking that we put a lot of energy in on that [RCS] at this point.". We need to make it clear to Apple that we the users DEMAND that RCS be added to the iPhone to improve our text messaging experience. iMessage is now antiquated and we can't be asked to force our Mom or anyone for that matter to buy an iPhone. Apple needs to fix this. 

Signing the petition is a good first step in letting Apple know that you would like for them to make the effort to add RCS to iPhone. You can also send an email to Tim Cook tcook@apple.com or fill out this feedback form http://apple.com/feedback/iphone