Re:A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
by matthewfcarlson on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:03PM
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I think the play to forcing Apple to support RCS is the privacy angle. E2E encryption on regular text messages? That should be what Apple is about. If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.
Re:A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
by gloriousternary on Sunday August 08, 2021 @01:34PM
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> If Apple answers that the solution for privacy is for your friend to buy an iPhone, they need to be called out.
People have been trying to call them out for this for quite a while. Apple hasn't created an iMessage app for Android because a large part of their business relies on ecosystem lock-in, and they won't implement RCS for the same reason.
Re:A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
by mixmastamyk on Sunday August 08, 2021 @12:05AM
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You may have missed the latest news. They’ve walked back from privacy, if not yet explicitly in their advertising.
From what I understand, Google has gone from pushing an open standard to carriers, to pretty much steamrolling their own (Jibe) infrastructure.
Some carriers implemented Universal Profile on their own, probably a bit too late to Google's taste, and are now completely left out as they cannot interconnect to a federated RCS network.
And I know from personal sources that FB is currently working on integrating RCS into FB messenger (I'm not sure about target markets though).
I own a Pixel and I don't mind using Google's Messages app, but if the goal is avoiding Whatsapp (or whatever local competitor) to become the de facto messaging platform, RCS doesn't look much better.
And a big question remains: who's going to force Apple to support RCS?