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Eh? RCS is an open standard. Yes, you're basically required to use Google's RCS endpoints at this point unless you want to host your own, but it's far superior to SMS. Apple made their own proprietary version in iMessage instead, so you have iPhones on iMessage and every other phone in the world on RCS.
That's like... both iPhone and Android are vender-locked.
No, Apple can begin supporting RCS and play nice with other phones (not just Android) using a modern, encrypted, and open messaging platform. But they choose to fall back to SMS intentionally in order to market their devices as superior.
RCS has been anything but superior to SMS in my experience. More often than not when I SMS my housemate I get "Can't be delivered; tap for options". The problem is that it only tells me this after hours of failing to send!