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Re:Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% by Alex3917 on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:01PM (#19610680)
> I honestly can't understand why Google hasn't been able to replicate the success of iMessage.

I mean a better question at this point is perhaps why Apple engineering hasn't been able to implement RCS.

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Re:Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% by Nextgrid on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:13PM (#19610762)
RCS is designed to be controlled by the carriers. You know what else is controlled by carriers and has gone to shit as far as spam and security is concerned? SMS.

We actually have to thank the “walled garden” for the lack of spam on iMessage.

While I’d like Apple to also support RCS, I still want iMessage to remain the default for communicating with iOS users.

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Re:Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% by btian on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:05PM (#19610712)
Why should Apple implement RCS?

All the backend is controlled by Google. All the risks, none of the gains.

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Re:Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9% by delfinom on Monday April 08, 2019 @10:49PM (#19611313)
No it isn't.

RCS its a open cellular standard thats being deployed worldwide. Google does offer a backend for carriers to use (when you want to push your cloud offerings and have tons of engineers with nothing else to do just like AWS) but it's not required and carriers are rolling their own. The protocol itself is meant for inter-carrier communication and phones.

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