This sounds like a nice step towards modernizing texting, but it’s a shame that Messages doesn’t have an open RCS API to encourage broad adoption across messaging apps.

    • @Holyginz
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      89 months ago

      Ans yet Apple expects all others to to just accept what they want or Apple walls off everything. It goes both ways, Apple doesn’t get to control everything.

        • setVeryLoud(true);
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          29 months ago

          Have you looked into running your own RCS server or connecting to existing RCS servers? As far as I can tell, it’s proprietary infrastructure built on top of an open standard.

          RCS just lets the servers talk to each other, and there is no reference implementation for a server. On the off chance that you do manage to write your own implementation, it’s unlikely that Google or Samsung’s servers would be willing to talk to yours unless you’re a telecom.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        They don’t expect (or often even allow) others to adopt their standards though, which is the point being made here.