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Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Better Interoperability With Android Devices
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Yet here you are using and defending a product designed, developed and sold by a U.S. company. I hope you are happy us Americans give you such a great product with your iPhone. There is no tech company in Europe that’s holds a candle to American tech innovation.
Now back to RCS. It’s great that Apple will be using it and it‘s going to improve texting greatly between iPhones and Android phones using the stock texting app. It probably matters more in America where the vast majority just use the stock texting app whether that’s Apple Messages or Google Messages, but millions of people will benefit from it. Well you won’t, however Apple isn’t going to change their mind because you are so upset by this.
I think everyone should relax and not get too hyped. Bubbles will still be green and there will be no end to end encryption
It’s literally in the rcs spec, their isn’t any encryption
Yep, my sister and mum has an iPhone but still message on WhatsApp
All RCS traffic is encrypted, just not end-to-end. The spec provides metadata capabilities necessary to add end-to-end encryption, which is obvious given that Google has done it. All Apple has said so far is that they want that layer added to the GSMA spec.
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USB c definitely is more flimy. I simply use my cord the same way i use my lightning
I, an iPhone user, am hurt whenever I have to text android users, which is frequently. By your line of reasoning, why should apple even support MMS? There are lots of other options!
which means the massive flaw in the UX exists and the problem isn't entirely solved.
I use Messenger as my backup because most people I know have it, however it's still tied in with Facebook. You can deactivate your Facebook and still use it, but it's still tied into all of that. It's a good option when you have to send larger files or photos between an iPhone and Android phone. I also have Snapchat for my closest friends and find my younger friends use that a lot, but it's a pretty poor messaging platform outside of sending fun snaps.
As far as the other options go like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, etc. They might be a big thing in certain places but in my experience texting whether iMessage or SMS followed by Messenger and Snapchat is what my friends use. I know it's a different story outside of the US, but here so many people just use the stock texting app the phone comes with. In those cases making Apple Messages and Google Messages play nicer together will be a big improvement.
It just gives everyone a better phone number based texting option that's pre-installed on a phone. If you don't want to use it that's fine, but a lot of iPhone users just like to use iMessage to communicate with everyone. The same is true with Google Messages. It's hard to get all your friends and family to start using something new.
It’s not stupid it’s just your opinion! You obviously don’t like it because of the colours! Now that sounds stupid to me!
It is also really kind of baffling how so many people want to change what makes iphone an iphone and its features/abilities to match non iphone devices... like at that point just get a phone that isnt an iphone?
The emojis are defined by the system font (and/or the font used by the application) and they don't depend on the messaging service used by the stock Messages app.
What makes an iPhone an iPhone? Is it the stubborn locking down of useful features?
Indeed it is and has been and has been repeatedly reported upon here and many other places by Google themselves. But I guess I shouldn't listen to them huh?
For like the thousandth time, it won't be useful unless your carrier utilizes UP on iPhone. It has to be enabled carrier-side or you have to use Google's messaging app. If they implement UP tomorrow and your carrier has not, nothing will be different.
They'll get full res audio/video/photo, sure, but they won't get any of the other iMess attributes. That's not a compelling reason to switch sides. If you're going to switch, you're going to. Being able to send full res photos isn't going to sway anyone either direction. Android can already do so to Android and iPhone to iPhone. Being able to send from iPhone to Android isn't going to make someone want to switch from one to the other. That's illogical.
Please point me to even one statement or report that Google has broken the encryption of Signal's protocol and currently possesses the keys to decrypt those messages. (The private keys stored on each users device in the TEE or SE or Titan M2)
I see, you‘re still spreading FUD. Apple will absolutely roll their own RCS hub, no carrier implementation needed. Don‘t listen to the poster I‘m quoting, has no idea what UP is or how RCS works.
What happened to educating yourself isn't difficult? They're not using Signal's protocol, they're using a protocol based upon Signal's which has been said multiple times in here by multiple people. Just like they're not using RCS UP, they're using their version of it which they control.
I am neither scared, uncertain, or doubtful but sure. Whatever floats your goat. They might roll out their own hub, there's no info on that. All we have is that they're implementing RCS UP and not Jibe late next year. Which, right now, only means an additional protocol like SMS and MMS. Which if that's all they do, will absolutely require carrier side support per GMSA and RCS standards. I don't have to know how it works, I only need to know what the people who control it says on how it works. They say it has to be implemented on your device and your carrier has to implement it. One or the other and it doesn't work. Just like SMS and MMS.