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Apple Could Be Planning to Redesign Messages App Next Year
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I don’t think he’s listening, he’s too busy swimming in his Olympic sized pool full of cash from all of the people who switched to the iPhone for just iMessage and nothing else.
Seriously, although it would be nice from a consumer standpoint, what would be the financial benefit of Apple implementing RCS?
None, literally none.
It takes away several benefits that iMessage has over SMS, it doesn’t give them any privacy talking points over SMS, and given that the implementation everyone wants is googles it forces them to work with them on another feature.
Just for Apple as a money making business, which is what they first and foremost are and always have been, there’s absolutely no benefit.
How does the inclusion of stickers make it better? Is it like BitMoji? Do we need tabs like a browser? What UX/IX would be a game changer?
This is probably the one thing it won't do. I want this too but at this point it seems like Apple is being deliberately stubborn.
I just want the ability to schedule text messages the way we just got the ability to do for email.
Amen. Instagram got ruined, as well as facebook messenger. Too much dabbling and straying from the core product. I don’t want to see teenagers shaking their butt to horrible music when I want to see photos. I don’t want to see reels and videos when I’m seeking to just message someone.
Add more, ruin the core.
There is benefit but I think you nailed it that at this point Google essentially controls RCS because the network operators were too busy figuring out how to monetize it to actually implement it. At this point Apple sees it somewhat correctly as a Google controlled messaging system and they don't want to give up that control. Seeing as it's Google I actually don't blame them.
All my friends and family are using Telegram. Apple needs to either make a real push in development to compete with Telegram, Whatsapp, etc.
It needs to be universal support in all OS around the world, Windows, Android, Linux as well. Web version too!
I can't remember when was the last time I text SMS these days except receiving 2FA codes for login.
It needs to be universal support in all OS around the world, Windows, Android, Linux as well. Web version too!
I can't remember when was the last time I text SMS these days except receiving 2FA codes for login.
Stop calling "marking messages unread" as a "new feature." We used to be able to do that, and then they took the feature away and brought it back. Revolutionary! Courageous! 🙄 We should not give them credit for that.
I tried all the different calendar apps, Fantastical among them. None of them are terrible except how you share them, and group them into different categories. Sharing should be easy, choose the icloud account to connect, the other person accepts, then you link accounts if you are part of the same network. The way it is, is clunky, doesn't work half the time, and events get mixed up. Seems nobody can do a simple to use app, thus we all went back to google calendar.
This would also be a reason more for Apple to hold back on implementing Rich Communication Services (RCS).
I mean not really?
What would be the point? The whole idea behind skeuomorphism with the original iPhone and especially the iPad was to introduce the world to touch based operating systems using real world objects.
It made someone’s first usage of an iPhone or iPad a lot less intimidating.
Eventually, it became too much (Paper shredder animation? Really?), it became pointless (reel to reel in the podcasts anpp… because cute? I guess?), and everyone got used to it, so it was rightfully ditched.
The evolution of skeuomorphism will be augmented reality, where actual real life objects can have more depth given to them digitally.
Instead of a fake pool table on the screen, you can have things added to a real pool table (like scores or hints or whatever)through your glasses.
It would be a natural evolution of iMessage, I don't find it improbable for Apple to redesign the application and its functionalities.
Considering they are not interested on implementing RCS, it's not crazy to think that Apple would be working on a different way to attract audience from all ecosystems.
Considering they are not interested on implementing RCS, it's not crazy to think that Apple would be working on a different way to attract audience from all ecosystems.
Sounds Like everything is becomes convoluted and worse in search of the next thing.
Instead of properly fixing the current thing.
How about shipping a Studio Display with USB ports that don’t fail after a day of using them?
We are complaining like mad on the Mac Studio forum and no fix after so many months.
Instead of properly fixing the current thing.
How about shipping a Studio Display with USB ports that don’t fail after a day of using them?
We are complaining like mad on the Mac Studio forum and no fix after so many months.
With every other app on the planet having stories - iMessage is the only app I actually would use them in. Let's go!!!
Yeah no. I don't need chat rooms. I don't need a new home view & I certainly don't need video clips.
What I DO need is a nice, simple messaging app that I can send pictures & videos from along with the occasional link or two.
The superfluous stuff I can do without
What I DO need is a nice, simple messaging app that I can send pictures & videos from along with the occasional link or two.
The superfluous stuff I can do without
I think a lot of people confuse “gingerbread” aspects of skeumorphism like page turning, woodgrain, and a green felt playing board with plain old good interface design focused on how things work in real life, which just plain helps the user.
Speaking for myself, what I miss most from pre-iOS7 was not that the calendar looked like paper/cardboard or had page turns, but I miss that the design was about helping the user understand/use the content quickly and intuitively. In certain aspects, a control or screen used aspects of the real life counterparts we still use today, which just simply worked.
Back then the design was not focused on stubbornly implementing the interface to be as minimalist white/light grey as possible, devoid of the interface cues we took for granted like clear differentiation of what’s actionable (button) vs what’s just text. And I miss seeing lines/separators for content vs. controls, and to differentiate different parts of the content or controls (for example, at least now iOS Settings went back to colored/shaded zones that differentiate groupings of commands, instead of the minimalist just-lines-from-left-to-right-across-the-screen that made everything just blend in way too much together and it took more cognitive work at times to navigate.
And I miss seeing often-used commands out in the open instead of hidden behind the hamburger icon. Or is it under the ellipse icon? Or that gear icon? Still now 10 years after iOS7, many apps/interfaces are still too white, too stark, a little too vague.
As Jony Ive is thankfully gone, Apple keeps baby-stepping back to robust, intuitive interface design like before ~2013…interface design focused on use honed after decades of refinement, and not a hardware designer’s minimalist preferences. And if it looks similar to a real life counterpart, hey, no problem!
And you can just message without being affected by the other stuff. Just type and tap the arrow.
If Apple turns iMessage into a cross-platform super app like WeChat, Apple could get a cut from transactions.
People would use the app to buy stickers, make mobile payments (iMessage already supports Apple Cash payments), order food deliveries and rides, etc. all without leaving the iMessage app.