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# 1 billion isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? - billion of a different metric.
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/1-billion-isnt-cool-you-know-whats-cool-billion-of-a-different-metric/
- Published: 2025-05-13T23:10:02.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-13T23:10:02.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links

18 months ago there were [1 billion monthly RCS users](https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23981350/google-messages-chat-rcs-apple-imessage-photo-emoji?ref=birchtree.me) around the world. Today, Google announced that [1 billion RCS messages are sent in the US alone every single day](https://blog.google/products/android/billion-rcs-messages/?ref=birchtree.me). Finding a comparable iMessage number is hard, but the worldwide number [may be around 8 billion messages per day](https://usesignhouse.com/blog/imessage-stats/?ref=birchtree.me).

All I can say is that my life has gotten better since RCS was turned on. All of my family chats have way more reliable delivery and sending full-res images to family and friends is a delight.