I’m surprised the article doesn’t make a big deal about what I think is the biggest addition to Messages: RCS. For years this has been my major annoyance with Messages because all the Android phones support the open RCS protocol for messages and not Apple’s proprietary protocol for Messages. When Apple rolls out the new Messages with RCS we’ll finally be able to sent attachments such as photos to Android phones. It’s not clear if Apple will support encrypted RCS messages.

Of course support for RCS is of little interest outside the USA because almost all the rest of the world uses WhatsApp for messaging.

L^2