Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
The blue versus green bubble debate may not be as bad.
Blue vs green bubble "debate"? Apple put green bubbles in their app to annoy their own users, who then turn around and blame non-apple users. What's to debate about that?
61I doubt they will change the bubbles, or they will find some other way to differentiate messages coming from outside the Apple garden.
15The bubble being green and Apple making them progressively uglier and breaking their own interface guides is one issue, but the main issue people care about are how SMS conversations break with an iPhone. Group threads will randomly have messages delivered in different threads, pictures and videos are low res if they send at all and there's no advanced features like typing indicators, read receipts, etc.
The hope is with RCS that is fixed. If so, the color of the bubbles doesn't really matter.
5Apple put green bubbles in their app to annoy their own users
Out of curiosity, when do you think Apple started using green bubbles?
3It's not "when" they put green bubbles in but how they've been maliciously modifying the design of green bubbles. They have made them progressively harder to read, here's one article about it: https://uxdesign.cc/how-apple-makes-you-think-green-bubbles-gross-e03b52b12fed
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28No direct support (in Google Messages), but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple piggybacked on your iCloud account to share links to such things. A similar thing can be done with Google Photos.
12I've sent videos in Google Messages to others (e2ee RCS) and they've arrived in a good enough quality, definitely better than MMS at least. I've not shared media over standard RCS though, so unsure if that implementation is different....
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Somebody wanna check the temperature in Hell real quick?
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8Oh man it truly did freeze over. Are the pigs flying yet?
Fuck.
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It's Apple. They'll probably support it, but make messages received look ugly, have missing features, have obtuse issues that aren't clear to the user, instantly explode a built in fart smell cartridge inside the iPhone whenever someone sends you a message
25Oh hell yeah now I get to fart in my friends faces without being physically present
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That explains why I just saw a flying pig outside
17Cool, when will Google add it to Google Voice FFS?
16Exactly
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association,” an Apple spokesperson tells 9to5Mac.
RCS will instead replace SMS and MMS and “exist separately from iMessage when available.” Apple didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
The change likely comes in response to regulatory pressure from the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a rule that requires major companies, such as Apple, to make their services interoperable with other platforms.
Companies like Google and Samsung have long pushed for Apple to add support for RCS with splashy marketing campaigns and videos.
Earlier this month, Google sent a letter to the European Commission that argues iMessage should be considered a core platform service under the DMA.
Apple may not be doing this out of its own willingness, but the addition of RCS is a more than welcome change — especially for all of us who have had to deal with receiving poor-quality videos sent from iPhones to Androids (and vice versa), along with a patchwork of other missing features that make it less appealing to text between devices.
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5in other news 2.2 came 3 years ago
1Isn't this the technology that allows google/att to look at and analize all my texts? Why would anyone want this?
0They can already look at your texts when using SMS/MMS, which is what the messages app uses when chatting with non-imessage users. SMS is known to be insecure.
30RCS doesn’t have to go through Google’s servers - carriers - or I guess Apple - could set up a gateway
5@HeartyBeast @stefano @Haphazard9479 Google put up their own because the carriers botched the rollout. The carriers were very fast to deploy MMS servers because they could charge by the picture. Now that they no longer can do that, they were in no hurry to do the upgrade.
Using Pixel phones, RCS is pretty nice. You do get the three step confirmation (sent, received, read) and end to end encryption.
Hopefully Apple will implement the encryption.
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