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Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: 'Buy Your Mom an iPhone'
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It's about elevating the experience for all. It doesn't hurt Apple to allow interoperability but interoperability puts a door in the ecosystem. Can't have that now can we? 
Lowest-common-denominator SMS Txt messaging is bad when there are better options. Use the better options when they are available. That's all that's being asked here. It's an unreasonable answer by Tim and Apple.
Lowest-common-denominator SMS Txt messaging is bad when there are better options. Use the better options when they are available. That's all that's being asked here. It's an unreasonable answer by Tim and Apple.
What are the poors complaining about? The new iphone in Europe is only 1500€, jUsT bUy EvErYoNe YoU kNoW a NeW iPhOnE.
And this is why people love to bully Apple users because of comments like this
"The lack of RCS support on iOS makes it much harder for iOS and Android users to communicate normally, forcing them to use third-party messaging platforms such as WhatsApp or Telegram."
Can someone explains me what makes it harder to communicate with Android users? The only difference I see is the green bubbles.
Can someone explains me what makes it harder to communicate with Android users? The only difference I see is the green bubbles.
Forcing Apple to adopt a standard would be anti-competitive, while having different and multiple choices in the market - letting the customer pick the one is best for them - is the definition of competition.
There are already several free, end-to-end encrypted, multi-platform messaging apps out there such as WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
RCS isn't even encrypted.
There's plenty of competition already.
Having worked on RCS wayyyy back when it was cool, it is not any better than any other messaging protocol. Even within RCS, there are sub standards and each client of RCS can choose to support some but not all parts of RCS.I use Telegram for my Android friends and I would see that as a better option than to force an iPhone on anyone, however I would not let my mom use an Android phone hehe
If she refuses then Tim will sell you an iMom Pro Max!"Buy your mom an iPhone"
Wow, maybe his mom has an opinion of her own about which phone she wants. Apple is so arrogant sometimes, and it clearly starts at the top
Yet I can absolutely imagine Steve Jobs saying that and even more people going “yeaaaah you tell ‘em!”
It’s a very Apple thing to say. Cook just doesn’t have Steve’s showmanship so the association is rude rather than whimsy. Steve was great at being arrogant and funny at the same time in a way that made his stage persona seem likable despite him being a very ruthless businessman. Apple could use more of that whimsiness again.
Well you can’t send images or files over text. (MMS has been discontinued here many years ago and never really used cuz one MMS was like 49 cent). Do group chats work with sms? I guess not
Including RCS in iOS would be one reason less to get an iPhone.
Who wants to talk with android users? btw.
What is iMessage?
Everyone I know uses What's app regardless of what type of phone they have. I even have What's App on macOS
What's the problem?
Everyone I know uses What's app regardless of what type of phone they have. I even have What's App on macOS
What's the problem?
Mate as soon as I watched this movie I turned to my wife and was like this is a rip off of Tim Cook and this movie is taking the piss 😂
Group chats with SMS means sending an SMS too all members, like those mass emails you love to get and everybody hits reply all
Tim Cook's response was obnoxious, but the reporter's questioning was probably disingenuous.
It's not difficult. Do what the rest of the world does and use WhatsApp, or something similar.
It's not difficult. Do what the rest of the world does and use WhatsApp, or something similar.
This is more a US issue. I use iMessage myself (mostly to other iPhone users that I message often) because I like the integration and all. WhatsApp is really the default option for most outside the US (or some other ones like WeChat, Line etc in certain countries) regardless of what phone they use. Apple doesn’t have much to gain to spend their time and resources on it. As much as the US is their home market and a major revenue source, it is rather trivial to implement when it doesn’t really benefit the majority of iPhone users across the world.
Well I do, one of my good friends has an Android.
To me, it sounded exactly like something Steve would’ve said.
Remember when he called iTunes for Windows “a glass of ice water in hell”?
lmao my boss uses samsung, you want ppl get fired?
it's not anticompetitive yet, who knows what gov't around the world gonna push apple to adopt this.