As usual, Android OS is a buggy mess, of course Apple won't implement it, that RCS thing is really not ready.

Pixel 6 pro is a huge disappointment period!!!

I updated to Android 13 on my Pixel 6 & my RCS is working fine so far, everything is running smooth & I feel like the battery life got better. I also love material U

RCS isn't an answer to iMessage, it's the upgrade to the SMS standard. Has nothing to do with a specific OS or company. But yes, Apple is as usual refusing to adopt a standard in order to gatekeep their customers.

RCS is not Google's or Android's answer, it's a telecommunications standard that Apple refuses to implement in iMessage. It still works in any other iOS app that implements it.

And actually it has almost nothing to do with Android OS itself, but more with connectivity modules that Android phones usually have. It's easy to break it on any device, any time, regardless of the OS. Mine is broken on Android 12, for example.

It is Apple that sells a couple of app updates as a complete revolutionary OS upgrade, so that's why you're misunderstanding what's going on. But no harm really, just edit your text, we don't expect much from this site anymore...

This is also occurring on my Samsung S22ultra in the Android 13 beta