A bit pathetic if you’re assigning their value to *your* inability or unwillingness or maybe perceived superiority to read text on different coloured backgrounds.
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Android Users Can Soon Add Emoji Reactions to iPhone Texts With Annoying Catch
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Apple loyalists have contempt for the Andnoying operating system. I'm assuming the rest of the Apple community is indifferent. In my circle of people that matter to me - one defected away from Apple to Adenoid so she now misses out on group iMessages and Apple Calendar invitations. I'm trying to convert her back but no big loss as she annoys the fu(k out of all the family members including myself. The other friend whom I have little contact with has always been on roids so to overcome this I use my Nokia or Giggle PixURnasal 6's Messages and Calendar apps to connect with them occassionally and a one time Duo call (FaceTime facisimile - of sorts) to that annoying Aunt whilst she was in Deutschland. 'Nokia still connecting people'.
Since emoji can be expressed using coded plain ASCII text, I don't understand why SMS can't transmit inline emojis, with them being encoded when sent and decoded when received (or I suppose, discarded if not supported).
Actually seems okay considering (at least the emoji reaction content gets through). RCS is of course something controlled by the carriers (they each had their own incompatible version before) and there are still other versions of it out in the world as well as encryption is not part of its standard (that is layered on top of it in Google's app). Quite frankly it would be a mess to support a conversion over to it by Apple in iMessage.
I think an interesting question is, what will Apple do if the U. S. carriers just drop SMS and only run RCS. Would Apple be done with the carriers messaging and have iMessage only be iMessage's? (like basically every other messaging platform) Or would they integrate RCS in? I really have no feel for what they'd do at that point. There may not be much downside to washing their hands of carrier based messaging.
I think an interesting question is, what will Apple do if the U. S. carriers just drop SMS and only run RCS. Would Apple be done with the carriers messaging and have iMessage only be iMessage's? (like basically every other messaging platform) Or would they integrate RCS in? I really have no feel for what they'd do at that point. There may not be much downside to washing their hands of carrier based messaging.
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I rarely use it because it's absolutely horrible and outdated, a real dog--particularly on macOS. Apple really need to take a good hard look at themselves and reimagine Messages to at least gain feature parity with an IM client like FB Messenger.
Google could have done this any time they wanted. They just never cared about their user experience until the writing was on the wall that it should have been done already. When your eyes are glued on gleaning user data I guess user experience never really becomes the top priority. Apple should be very glad that Google has never hired anyone with some vision for this kind of thing to head the direction of Android. Missing 9 out of every 10 American teenagers in their Android dataset must be a very scary looking blackhole in their whole dataset.
There's an interesting thought. Perhaps Google should have a commercial interest in prolonging the life of SMS to prevent this from ever happening. Keeping it on life-support 30 years from now to stop Apple from killing the 20th century idea of a mobile phone, to stop iPhone from being a choice of smartphone and just the defecto device for 90 percent of American households in the generations ahead. And even if people needed a legacy SMS service, why can't they just do it through the cloud and have an app display the messages to the user, and let them have those messages appear in the normal Messages app.
Really though, too many services will still rely on SMS as two factor authentication for many decades ahead, so the fate of SMS is probably outside of Apple or Google's control.
RCS support on iPhone would have been nice. But don’t know how useful this will be on Android.
Apple should have opened an iMessage API or something to make it a standard. FaceTime as well (in fact Steve himself said he wanted something like that back around when it was announced)
If RCS becomes a standard, Apple only has themselves to blame for not taking advantage sooner
I've got no time for people that make dumb decisions. Android itself is fine but the skins are ass and the apps are absolute garbage. You deserve to be ignored if you choose that life.
Ah, that must be why Apple won't support RCS... because YOU don't get messages from Android users. Makes sense now.
So you think you’re superior. Got it.
This totally embodies the snobbery that clouds around Apple product users.
I guess that anyone who makes a dissimilar choice to you is also inferior?
RCS texts go through Google servers.
Not interested in anything to do with RCS until that changes.
Hard pass.
Not interested in anything to do with RCS until that changes.
Hard pass.
An appalling number of companies continue to use SMS for two factor authentication. Which mobile carrier is going to take a chance on dropping SMS, when they know one of their competitors won’t?
My thing is this ... if you have an Android phone, please don't text me. I would rather you just send an email. I'm not the only one with these thoughts
Google today announced that Android users will be able to add emoji reactions to SMS texts received from iPhone users in Google's Messages app. This feature and other improvements to the app will begin rolling out in the coming weeks.
Given that the Messages app on iOS lacks support for the Rich Communication Services (RCS) protocol, emoji reactions from Android users will appear as annoying follow-up SMS text messages on the iPhone, according to CNET. For example, the message will say something along the lines of "Joe reacted with Heart to 'let's go to the movies tonight.'"
Google's head of its Messages app Jan Jedrzejowicz told CNET that it will be up to Apple to decide whether or not to parse those texts into the appropriate Tapback reaction on the iPhone, similar to how Tapbacks now appear properly on Android.
The feature seems to be at least partly an attempt at Google encouraging Apple to support RCS on the iPhone, as this would eliminate the annoying follow-up SMS messages. Google launched a campaign earlier this year pushing for Apple to adopt RCS, but Apple CEO Tim Cook suggested the feature has not been highly requested by iPhone users.
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i don't trust Google to support this technology for more than few years, we all know google's history of dumping products in few years.
Can't send messages from
Google Chrome OS to iMessages
Microsoft Windows to iMessages
Slack to Google Messages
Google messages to Microsoft teams
What's app to iMessages
What's app to Google messages
List is endless.
all messaging services should use just one protocol.
So that there will be competition between all these services and they develop new technologies for messaging services. Sarcasm.
If Intel and Apple didn't develop thunderbolt USB would be still struck in USB 2.0 speeds.
We need competition to make progress/innovate.
Using one protocol/technology across all service providers will make every one complacent, and technology won't progress.
EU basically created a monopoly by forcing every one to use USB C.
in few years EU will take USB to court for monopoly.
Google Chrome OS to iMessages
Microsoft Windows to iMessages
Slack to Google Messages
Google messages to Microsoft teams
What's app to iMessages
What's app to Google messages
List is endless.
all messaging services should use just one protocol.
So that there will be competition between all these services and they develop new technologies for messaging services. Sarcasm.
If Intel and Apple didn't develop thunderbolt USB would be still struck in USB 2.0 speeds.
We need competition to make progress/innovate.
Using one protocol/technology across all service providers will make every one complacent, and technology won't progress.
EU basically created a monopoly by forcing every one to use USB C.
in few years EU will take USB to court for monopoly.
It’s not unique to T-Mobile, ALL the US carriers gave up on CCMI all at once in 2021 and have made the decision to use Google Messages on Android devices (using Google RCS). None of the US carriers are interested in Google RCS for iPhones and as long as that doesn’t change, the situation for RCS in the US won’t change.
Is Google messenger app on iSO similar to What's App ?
i don't use Google messages.
I think the feature depends on adding an emoji to a message sent previously, right? SMS doesn’t have the ability to flag a previously sent message (I may be misunderstanding the question).