Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone...
by jiggawatts on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:24PM
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There's many reasons not to support RCS.
It is a bag of standard parts thrown together by a bunch of telecommunications companies in a desperate attempt to hold on to their 50c per message cash cow.
If you spend more than a minute actually looking into it, you'll realise that Apple would basically have to run it in a virtual machine for security, and then hand over control to a bunch of telcos that can't even all agree on what is and isn't included in RCS.
Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone...
by colinmhayes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:41PM
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Still better than SMS/MMS. But apple can come up with a new standard if they want. Or... they can port the one they've already invented to android.
Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone...
by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:30PM
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> It is a bag of standard parts thrown together by a bunch of telecommunications companies in a desperate attempt to hold on to their 50c per message cash cow.
But in the US (the market being discussed here) basically all US mobile plans include unlimited texting anyway...
1. RCS is now available and a standard. iMessage already "degrades" to sending SMS messages to those not on iMessage. There is no reason they can't better support RCS.
2. While MMS groups were missing a ton of features, there are just things now that are much worse as an Android user interacting with an iMessage group than it was previously in an MMS group. I.e. I never used to have issues with dropped images before, but in an iMessage group it's like a crapshoot whether my photos get delivered.