Mobile UX
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4 days agoA new RCS update could connect iPhone and Android video calls, someday
Interoperable video calls between iPhone and Android users may become possible with the RCS Universal Profile 4.0 standard.
The startup, founded by former Shipt executives Elliott Potter (CEO), Patrick Sullivan (CTO), and Jared Mattsson (President), heard that feedback and launched an API in February 2025 that lets companies message their customers natively within iMessage, leveraging all the capabilities Apple's platform offers to iPhone users, like group chats, emojis, threaded replies, images and voice notes. Within eight months, Linq had doubled its annual recurring revenue it had built over four years, co-founder and CEO Elliott Potter told TechCrunch.