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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)

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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] 155 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

This is weirdly only a thing in America. In Europe, where I live, iMessage isn’t that popular and iPhone users never seem to care about the bubble colour (likely because WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Element, and Threema are so popular, everyone is used to using multiple chat apps anyway).

Edit: Also I’m not sure why everyone is championing RCS - it’s yet another proprietary communication standard like iMessage and isn’t open thus can’t be easily implemented in other chat apps.

Rather then pressure Apple to support and further popularise another closed protocol, we should be pushing for something open like Matrix or Signal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also I’m not sure why everyone is championing RCS - it’s yet another proprietary communication standard like iMessage and isn’t open thus can’t be easily implemented in other chat apps.

My guy, this entire article is about Google and Samsung trying to convince Apple to adopt RCS.

Is a completely open standard better? Yeah, absolutely.

Would RCS basically create unified rich communication for virtually everyone? Also yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RCS isn’t open at all in practice and anyone who wants to put the carriers (or more likely Google) in control of messaging is a moron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nobody wants to do that, except that the alternative is SMS, which is much much worse.

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