“It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by JoBrad on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @07:36PM (#32406062)

Isn’t that the safest fallback, if you know they aren’t using iMessage? The other phone could be a phone that can’t accept RCS or iMessage.

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by sangnoir on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:48PM (#32407030)

Fallbacks can be layered. For a company that claims go all-out for its consumers privacy, using SMS as the default fallback in the 21st century is pretty sus.

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by mr_toad on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @10:23PM (#32407224)

There’s over a dozen different versions of RCS, hand who knows which carrier supports which parts. It’d be more fall-through (the cracks) than fall back.

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Re:“It’s time for Apple to fix texting” by bee_rider on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @09:18PM (#32406837)

Yes it seems that RCS is actually not a real fallback, it is a request to support yet another modern(ish) system.

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