87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone

Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by jiggawatts on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:24PM (#33184467)

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.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by colinmhayes on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:41PM (#33184682)

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.

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:30PM (#33185163)

> 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...

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Re:87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone... by postalrat on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:43PM (#33185779)

Well then, why not use whatsapp or whatever the rest of the world is using?

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