It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • @[email protected]English
    7•2 years ago

    Google and Samsung should bribe regulators to make it happen. Apple will never changed unless they are forced to and the only way that happens is shoving money in corrupt assholes pockets.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•2 years ago

    My understanding with RCS is that similar to SMS it uses the infrastructure of your phone carrier. First question: Do all carriers support this? Second question: Is there anything that prevents carriers from eventually monetizing this? At least with some sort of roaming trap when you are abroad…

  • @[email protected]English
    90•2 years ago

    While Apple should adopt RCS, I cannot help but feel that Google is being extremely hypocritical. They complain about iMessage being proprietary, but their implementation of RCS isn’t open source, and I believe they even mentioned they have no plans to open it up for 3rd party devs to implement it into their own sms apps. This just feels like an iMessage equivalent for Android. It has rich features that are exclusive to Android as a platform (more specifically exclusive to Google Messages or whatever the app is called now)… just like iMessage within iOS/MacOS/iPadOS…

  • @[email protected]English
    16•2 years ago

    I haven’t sent an SMS since like 2013 or something like that. Couldn’t care less about this blue green controversy, my use of SMS is receiving 2fa codes and spam.

  • @[email protected]English
    12•2 years ago

    RCS dates to 2008 and Appul didn’t support it. Now we know that Appul is stuck in 2007 or earlier.

    Edit: it seems RCS is another centralized hellscape

  • @[email protected]English
    9•2 years ago

    “What did the EU ever do for us?” in the monthy python mood. After usb c, apple is getting its proprietary model challenged again. When will Apple understand that in the long run it hinders innovation? And that openness and standardisation is a catalyst for it. RCS might not be the interoperable solution the EU pushes though. Anyway that’s the future of not using standards : https://lemmy.nz/post/2316522

  • @[email protected]English
    36•2 years ago
    1. EU passes the chat interop legislation.
    2. Apple is forced to do RCS.
    3. ???
    4. Corpos that shout now declare victory.

    First privacy, then USB, now RCS.

  • MrSilkwormEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    I think this issue is mostly a USA one, considering that most communications there have caps (data, phone time, SMS etc.) Paradoxically, the market there doesn’t work very well and prices are relatively high. Big corporations take advantage of it to lock people to their ecosystems. There is a high probability that this issue, will be regulated by the EU, since US policy makers are unable to solve much more important problems. For them this is not an issue. The market has solved it.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•2 years ago

    I use SMS mostly. From time to time Google asks if I want to activate RCS and presents a policy along with it, which I decline. Does it pass through their servers? If it does, that’s gonna be a big no.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    Does it matter if Apple starts supporting RCS? If they start supporting it, they’ll still treat it like SMS - green bubbles and all.