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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (16 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

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