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.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Never looked into it, what’s so bad about RCS besides it being proprietary? Way better than SMS in my experience.

      • @uis
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        31 year ago

        Being proprietary

      • Instrument_Data
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        01 year ago

        Everything is better than SMS.
        And everything except SMS is better than RCS.

        Let me use a fucking messaging app, I’ll just need any internet connection and it will works and it get constantly updated.

        RCS is just SMS2

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Then everyone needs to download and make an account on said app, they already exist and none are unanimous.

          Everyone has a phone number that gets used for auth and other things. If that system doesn’t change then RCS is way better.

    • @Cyberflunk
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      -71 year ago

      There is exactly one app that can use rcs. No better than apple

      • Echo Dot
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        1 year ago

        Confidently incorrect but ok.

        The whole point of RCS is that it’s a protocol so there demonstrably would be other apps. It’s like saying there’s only one app for SMS, it isn’t true.

        • @Cyberflunk
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          11 year ago

          What non Google sms app that has implemented RCS?

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        RCS seems to be pretty openly licensed out to other OEMs, definitely a lot better than iMessage.

        It’s still proprietary though, a far cry from something like Matrix.