Apple to Support Messaging Standard, Easing Google Conflict Over Green Text Bubbles

Apple plans to support a standard that will improve messaging with Android phones and enable new features, helping quell the blue-bubble/green-bubble debate around texts. 

Google has long pushed for Apple to adopt a communication protocol called rich communications systems, or RCS, that aims to replace traditional text messaging with more robust industrywide chat features. Such a change could help ease a stigma for users of its Android operating system.