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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

I don't get why people like RCS in this context. It has the same problem as iMessage.

On Android you have to use Google Messages to get it. Third party apps don't work with it because Google never opened it up to them. How common is RCS without Google Messages? Even on Samsung phones it goes via Google.

How common is iMessage without an Apple product?

Why does Google want them to use iMessage? Probably since the data would flow through them.

Same shiz, different company.

[-] monkey@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

RCS is just a standard, much like how SMS is just a standard. Google's Messaging app is just one implementation of it, though it probably is the most popular in the US it is not the only one, nor is Google able to decide who cannot use it. Carriers typically have their own, though you may have recently heard that T-Mobile decided to switch over to Google's.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 25 points 1 year ago

As someone else said RCS is just the new global standard replacing SMS that apple does not want to support because it weakens their walled garden.

[-] pewnit@lemmings.world 21 points 1 year ago

RCS is an open standard created by GSMA, not a Google product. Google and Samsung just have the most popular "flavours" of RCS

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Fog0555@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
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