• @[email protected]
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    182 years ago

    RCS is not an open standard, it’s just Google’s version of iMessage and it all goes through their servers. Stop regurgitating Google propaganda

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      A 5 second search could’ve told you the exact opposite of what you said. Maybe check yourself before you wreck yourself.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        It might be owned by someone else, but google is the only one pushing it and the only one supporting it. Technically it’s open, but it’s googles standard.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Does anything outside of Google use this standard? I haven’t even heard of open source apps that use it. The only major player backing it is google. It’s their standard, just like iMessage is apples.

      • kirklennon
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        62 years ago

        The whole iMessage/RCS conversation is really only relevant in the US; in other countries basically everyone uses WhatsApp or Kakao or LINE or whatever the local favorite is. In the US, there is no industry-standard RCS. It’s theoretically a carrier-based messaging service but all of the carriers outsourced it to Google so, as an alternative to iMessage, the option is a proprietary extension of RCS running on Google servers, something that is exactly as open as iMessage itself.

        If you want a true industry standard way to send messages to people, the iPhone has had that since 2007: email.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          I think it’s still very relevant to everyone else. An open standard is better than a closed system like WhatsApp.

          One day we’ll wonder why we let so much get tangled up in single companies. You’d think Twitter would wake people up.

          • kirklennon
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            22 years ago

            RCS the open standard is missing critical features. Google’s implementation fixes that, but is not open. I don’t think we should give a pass to RCS just because it’s open. SMS is a legacy format but it’s unconscionable these days to release a new messaging platform without E2E encryption. That’s a minimum viable product feature, not a maybe nice to have in the future feature.

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      52 years ago

      It’s a bit more complicated than that unfortunately. RCS wasn’t made by Google, but they did join the GSMA that manages it. They are pushing it as an alt/war against iMessage, but it doesn’t go through their servers as far as i know, it’s still a Mobile Operator service (like SMS), so it goes through your provider (and I guess Google’s if you use Google Fi).

      I kinda think the smart thing for Apple to do is to implement RCS support (make the bubbles orange/purple or something) and then they’ve done it and can continue working on iMessage if they like.