Well, I guess I should keep complaining about how cucked Apple is, but in the end I'll be glad that my texting experience with Android users will be less crappy. I don't pick and choose friends based on bubble color.
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Apple Likely Adopting RCS Messaging Standard to Comply With Chinese Law
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Considering the US stance on TikTok and Huawei, it's surprising that the government hasn't launched an investigation into Apple's relationship with China. With Apple's reliance on China, both for sales revenue and manufacturing prowess, it's absolutely reasonable to consider that Apple is sharing user data or other information believed to be private or worse, programing in "back doors".
As more and more evidence shows that Apple is willingly (or unwillingly) beholden to China, this is a scary revelation and one that ought to invoke more scrutiny.
As more and more evidence shows that Apple is willingly (or unwillingly) beholden to China, this is a scary revelation and one that ought to invoke more scrutiny.
He’s obviously talking about Apple just caving in straight away when it comes to china.
When China says "jump"
Tim says "how high!?"
Tim says "how high!?"
Honestly, for me, the better the messaging gets, the better for me
The way the hardware lockdown is going, I might not be a Mac user again at some point and the messaging piece is a huge one
At this point I want them to support RCS just so everyone shuts the hell up about RCS. I'll continue using Apple's Messages protocol for my US friends and Whatsapp for my UK family.
TBH in the colorful-bubble-fight I prefer Apple sticking with iMessage and the rest using whichever messeging app out there (xmpp, whatsapp, telegram, etc) instead of adoption retarded Google's RCS...
Agree. This article sounds very suspect. I believe it has to do more w/ EU than China.
The question then is whether in that case Google or Apple or ... would hold the keys or your device would.
Walled garden or not, mobile smartphones are ubiquitous and they should all talk to each other in a compatible, encrypted manner regardless of OS. Isn’t this what Apple cried about when the Mac was 2% of PC sales?
Standards standards standards! Interoperability allows Mac to coexist with Unix and that other OS.
Standards standards standards! Interoperability allows Mac to coexist with Unix and that other OS.
Apple will always bow to China. Who manufactures most of their products? What’s their biggest market for phones? China.
If we go back to the original times of the Nokia's and Ericsson's, we all were just sending plain text.
Then Apple started with the iPhone and Google with Android.
A smart company made the bridge, and named it Whatsapp.
Instead of "adding" or "opening" RCS to iMessages, Apple could simply make an iMessage app for Android, and we would call it the day.
Obviously it's too late for that now, as almost everybody is using Whatsapp to bridge the gap of cumbersome texting between iOS and Android.
Then Apple started with the iPhone and Google with Android.
A smart company made the bridge, and named it Whatsapp.
Instead of "adding" or "opening" RCS to iMessages, Apple could simply make an iMessage app for Android, and we would call it the day.
Obviously it's too late for that now, as almost everybody is using Whatsapp to bridge the gap of cumbersome texting between iOS and Android.
Your devices would need hold to keys for it to be considered end-to-end encryption.The question then is whether in that case Google or Apple or ... would hold the keys or your device would.
USB-C fair enough, but it was likely to happen soon anyway as having a different charger for your iPhone compared to your ipad/macbook was silly.
As for seperate app store, it's a textbook case of malicious compliance, to the point that it's not really Apple doing what the EU wanted in spirit
Why don’t EU write laws based on the spirit instead of writing for companies to do one thing, but expect them to do another?
There are already cross-compatible, encrypted ways for all smart phones to communicate that aren't owned by the platform holders themselves: Telegram, Signal, Viber, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Dust... there are plenty of options. I don't think Apple's previous disinterest in RCS is antithetical to the idea you bring up at all.
My concern with RCS is that E2EE is not a feature of the base spec, and it's not clear that there is a solution that would span all ecosystems (Apple, Linux, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and anyone else who wishes to support it). I can't find clear information on this.
I don't buy it. If this was the REALLY the case they could geo restrict it like they do other things, such as mandatory shutter noises on cameras in Japan and the EU DMA changes.
What's really probably happening here is that the SMS interoperability / iMessage divide is no longer an asset but a bit of a liability. If you have a bunch of green bubble friends, and they won't switch, and then they say they don't have issues between each other (thank RCS here), but the iPhone is the problem...well, guess who's going to buy an Android next time?
They can play both sides here: Blue bubble is better, but our green bubble is also best in class.
What's really probably happening here is that the SMS interoperability / iMessage divide is no longer an asset but a bit of a liability. If you have a bunch of green bubble friends, and they won't switch, and then they say they don't have issues between each other (thank RCS here), but the iPhone is the problem...well, guess who's going to buy an Android next time?
They can play both sides here: Blue bubble is better, but our green bubble is also best in class.
The Messages app doesn’t use WeChat, hence Chinese people can (like everyone) use iMessage to communicate E2EE. China probably wants Messages to use RCS instead in China so they can intercept it.
Ya, he did t have to split apart the App Store. Think Tim would be rather happy about that vs just implement RCS.Surprisingly believable, as Apple's response to EU regulation largely amounts to an almost meme-worthy mixture of begrudging acceptance and malicious compliance.
But if it's the Chinese government, even before you can finish saying "Year of the Dragon," Tim Cook will stop draggin' his heels.
But Foxconn, which manufactures a great number of Apple products, is a Taiwanese company.
What you claim about "reliance on China" is a common complaint these days about a great many things.
The rise of China as a dominant nation in global affairs is really scaring Americans who have grown use to American hegemony.
We are now entering the period where governments tell companies how to design their products.
innovation which has been spluttering along for a while will soon become road kill
innovation which has been spluttering along for a while will soon become road kill
I couldn't care less about RCS, so long as i can turn it off. I am often in locations where there's cell service, but not data service, and classic SMS is the only thing that works.