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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
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In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

There are several of these solutions in the wild now. Basically, the phone tunnels into MacOS VM that sends the message through actual iMessage.

Kind of janky, but it works.

[-] macgyver@federation.red 7 points 9 months ago

Beeper is sick! Would highly recommend. Or if you’re feeling frisky, self hosting the bridge in a docker container is possible. The container is a kvm osx vm.

[-] araozu@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Does beeper have a docker? I tried to install it last week, only saw an ansible notebook or something like that, broke my nginx and didn't even work

I want to reverse proxy to it, not have it take total control of my vps or dedicate a vps to it

[-] macgyver@federation.red 3 points 9 months ago

If you have a matrix server, then yes the mautrix-imessage bridge has a docker container. Beeper itself you can’t really self host as it’s their matrix server you live on (I haven’t checked out the beeper-selfhosted git yet).

I’m pretty sure the playbook is just docker under the hood on a service user instead of your normal user. There’s a way to run the playbook with docker as well (memory is fuzzy on that).

[-] Rootiest@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Matrix and the bridges can all be run in docker, yes.

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