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Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: 'Buy Your Mom an iPhone'
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I think when you are at the top of your game, you are entitled to the occasional snark comment here and there. People like Elon Musk have certainly gotten away with a lot more.
Sounds like problem solved then.
We are an iPhone family.
Also not a Facebook family.
But are forced to use What’s App because our iPhones don’t support RCS and half the phones in the USA aren’t iPhones.
It’s not possible for us to buy 1/2 of our contacts an iPhone.
We really would get What’s App off our phones and be Facebook free except for Apple’s position on RCS.
Also, even though we use them near exclusively, both iMessage and FaceTime could use some improvements to gain some features of what’s app, Skype, etc. to be more competitive in both messaging and telephony.
Also not a Facebook family.
But are forced to use What’s App because our iPhones don’t support RCS and half the phones in the USA aren’t iPhones.
It’s not possible for us to buy 1/2 of our contacts an iPhone.
We really would get What’s App off our phones and be Facebook free except for Apple’s position on RCS.
Also, even though we use them near exclusively, both iMessage and FaceTime could use some improvements to gain some features of what’s app, Skype, etc. to be more competitive in both messaging and telephony.
Wow. I know you said "a bit" but to compare a cell phone company to a murderous dictator is a stretch even when caveated.
As for "those in less privileged situations" that is quite the weak attempt to turn SMS vs RCS into some sort of class struggle of the proletariat. Someone doesn't want to or can't afford to buy their parents new phones? That person can:
a) continue to text them the way they always have *gasp*
b) download any of the dozens of FREE messenger apps on the devices. Whatsapp for example has more users worldwide (including in less privileged countries) than iMessage. Signal is great for those who value privacy.
I switch back and forth between apple and android quite often. How did I communicate with my apple family when I was on my pixel 4 a few years ago? I just had people download Whatsapp. Problem solved. When I was on android, RCS was coming out and frankly was already DOA. RCS Sucks and is DOA because:
- Currently no encryption enabled
- Of all of my 20+ android friends, only ONE of them could actually receive RCS. This is a combination of android phone makers never bothering to upgrade their phones, carriers being difficult.
- If my friend has to switch from their default messenger to google messenger for RCS, they may as well download Whatsapp or Signal.
- Nobody outside of the US or Canada cares about RCS anyway because they have migrated to messenger apps years ago due to expensive per sms pricing in their countries.
It was a pretty poor response by him but there is no sexism here.
Daily reminder Google's implementation of RCS runs through Google servers, and Google has tested and is now ready to inject ads into RCS messages passing through their servers.
And morons on lagdroid cheered when Google took RCS away from the carriers...
And morons on lagdroid cheered when Google took RCS away from the carriers...
I see people saying Steve Jobs would've said the same or worse.
Why would anyone in business want to invest resources in that business that ultimately loses them business?
That would be the definition of insanity.
Tim Cook in "proving that he is not insane" fiasco!
That would be the definition of insanity.
Tim Cook in "proving that he is not insane" fiasco!
Why would anyone in business want to invest resources in that business that ultimately loses them business?
That would be the definition of insanity.
Tim Cook in "proving that he is not insane" fiasco!
Yes we know why Apple doesn’t want to do this. There’s just a better way of saying it than the way Tim answered.
We don’t care what phone his mom wants. Buy her an iPhone is the correct response. Can’t cater to everyone’s needs when the obvious solution is right there."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
This level of arrogance makes shifting away from the apple walled garden more tempting than ever.
Tone is everything. If he was trying to be funny it actually kinda is in a smart-alecky way. He's a company guy - what a surprise!
We live in such ridiculous times when this "problem" is conflated to be ageist, sexist, uncompetitive, etc etc...there are truly dozens of free cross-platform alternatives to Messages.
The million dollar question:
why is Time Cook talking about your mom?
why is Time Cook talking about your mom?
Green bubble means the message was sent through SMS instead of the internet. SMS is outdated. Messages aren't encrypted, group messaging is a nightmare, video and image files in piss quality, has no read receipts, and more.
RCS fixes all the problems with green texts and then some, bringing them closer to iMessage. Which is exactly why Apple won't do it and Tim says snide comments like this, because keeping iPhone on the dated SMS system is a gatekeeping measure to keep you locked in to the walled garden and to peer pressure those around you to get iPhones too just for iMessage.
I think iMessage gets looked at wrong and I am expecting some people getting upset about what I am about to say. iMessage has a more unique beginning compared to most messaging platforms where it began as an alternative to sms that was just integrated into their messaging app rather than getting a separate iMessage and standard sms app. This happened in 2011..
Now most other apps do not have (I say most because of course there are far too many to know how every single one works) a fall back to possibly still send a message like the Apple Messages app. If I do not have wifi and no cell data signal I cannot send a message via FB Messenger, Discord, whatever else, where the Messages app has a fall back and maybe I can send via sms if I just have signal but no data or too weak of data.
This bring me to Google (since they are the big pushers of RCS) released in 2019 a whole 8 years after iMessage and suddenly Google wants everyone like Apple and carriers to support RCS when there are limitations still. It is a system that needs all carriers to be accepting of (to have no issues on the carrier side), it isn't even actually supported by all phones (thinking worldwide), and the biggest drawback to me is the way I understand it..RCS requires you to keep your number so in an event you change carriers and your number cannot be ported then you would have to start whole new conversations once you get RCS setup on the new number and so RCS will instantly already be not good to the iPhone users because they couldn't use their other devices to respond because those devices are connected to iMessage conversations via a linked email.
Now most other apps do not have (I say most because of course there are far too many to know how every single one works) a fall back to possibly still send a message like the Apple Messages app. If I do not have wifi and no cell data signal I cannot send a message via FB Messenger, Discord, whatever else, where the Messages app has a fall back and maybe I can send via sms if I just have signal but no data or too weak of data.
This bring me to Google (since they are the big pushers of RCS) released in 2019 a whole 8 years after iMessage and suddenly Google wants everyone like Apple and carriers to support RCS when there are limitations still. It is a system that needs all carriers to be accepting of (to have no issues on the carrier side), it isn't even actually supported by all phones (thinking worldwide), and the biggest drawback to me is the way I understand it..RCS requires you to keep your number so in an event you change carriers and your number cannot be ported then you would have to start whole new conversations once you get RCS setup on the new number and so RCS will instantly already be not good to the iPhone users because they couldn't use their other devices to respond because those devices are connected to iMessage conversations via a linked email.
The billion dollar question:
Who is Time Cook?
And to answer your question, he was replying to an inquiry that specifically was about someone's mom.
Much lower quality (basically unuseable) video and picture. The other stuff is mainly cosmetic, but the fallback standards of MMS are atrocious.
The 14 has a lightning port. Until it actually happens, they have forced nothing on him
Ridiculous stance. This inconveniences iPhone users as well. It's annoying that I have to leave iMessage to get decent quality media from my friends on Android.