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Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: 'Buy Your Mom an iPhone'
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Most the people I know with iPhone are old or tech inept that i don't interact with much so same here.
That aside all I ever hear about this "bubble" thing is that kids harass each other but ive never actually seen anything about kids harassing each other. Just people talking about it online. Kids will harass you if the yellow stripe on your shirt is to yellow. Kids are morons.
Tim's not listening then...There's no reason not to implement RCS other than for anti competitive processes.
No sh** Sherlock
. But thanks for the affirmation.If Apple made an app for Android, and let's say Google paid Apple a billion dollars for that to be a default app already installed, that might be construed as anti-competitive reminiscent of Microsoft and their browser issues in the 90s. I'm not saying it's exactly the same, and popular messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook probably have a much better foothold than internet browsers in the 90s did, but if iMessage suddenly was 99% of the messaging apps used it might cause issues, or not who knows.
Snide and condescending is my personal opinion, instead of making an attempt to explain why it wouldn't work for Apple as a company he just brushed it off as if the journalist's mother (and Android consumers in general) just have the wrong phone if they want to interface with iPhone users. Again, just my personal opinion.
The real issue here is why the carriers didn't adopt the universal RCS years ago, the answer is simple, greed and complacency. BOTH Google and Apple should be putting the carrier's feet to the fire, but of course they would never bite the hand that feeds them.
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Why would you be thankful fo lightning port? It's worse than USB C in every way, even Apple admitted that much and eliminated it from most of their iPad lineup.
No the better way is to explain why, but honestly I think consumers have just grown dumb and complacent and probably wouldn't listen or understand. So in that sense what he said was probably the best way in today's polarized "my way or the highway" society.
I don’t like usb c. I have a number of small rechargeable devices that use usb c.
Seems to me rather than wish for something bad to happen to someone (schadenfreude) and then bad karma happening to you, why don’t you wish you can start a business and sell it for a billion dollars?
Because all those suck compared to iMessage.
WhatsApp should just copy every feature of iMessage but that company is run so poorly they have the worst messaging app that everyone uses (me included). It’s terrible compared to iMessage - why can’t they just copy it and make it modern.
Tim's time will come to end. Sooner than later with this egotistical and arrogant attitude. He talks like Apple is still producing game changing technology. A few quarters of losses would be good for his ego.
The green bubbles remind them that when someone likes something they get a giant text saying they liked it. And as RCWorld said - “you aren’t going to get the ladies [with green bubbles].”
Eh you dont need third party apps to communicate with android? A normal text message works just fine, sure imessage is better but you dont need any third party apps to send a text message to android from ios
Rather than buy your mom an iPhone, install Signal Private Messenger on your mom's phone. Problem solved.
All my friends in sweden uses imessage, but I think its not as popular like in us overall
Reminds me of Blizzard’s “what, you don’t have phones?” remark.
Seems like it’s good for consumers of Apple. Do you want Apple to give up more of what makes Apple Apple? Competition drives innovation.
Tim's perspective makes sense. I don't see a growing movement of people advocating for Apple to spend precious development cycles on RCS. In fact, if there was a top 10 list of things to improve on iOS, RCS wouldn't come close to making that list. If you are an Android user, more likely than not, you are surrounded by more individuals that use an iPhone so just go get an iPhone. Problem solved.
In most parts of the world, people share everything between iPhones and Androids without any problems using Telegram or WhatsApp. So all the drama really comes from the lobby of Google to push Apple to adopt something that Apple doesn't need and only benefits Google.