It will be only available for the iPhone 14 pro max and the latest iPad with the m2; other devices can’t manage the UI.
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Apple Could Be Planning to Redesign Messages App Next Year
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Implementing RCS is not as simple as you think. It’s dependent on carriers, and hardly any carriers worldwide actually support it. Google literally shoehorned RCS by bypassing the carriers and use their own servers. Apple already did something like that, aka iMessage. So why should they spend that kind of resources again for RCS? Or worse, use Google’s servers?
But I think Apple should just make iMessage for Android. Apple can even make it a premium app by charging in app subscription. They had the chance when WhatsApp had a ToS change. At that time, even people were willing to give money to Signal. Apple should’ve come in with iMessage for Android at that time as people would’ve been willing to pay for it.
Oh please Apple, just take a deep breath & stop! You don't have to modify every existing App,..especially imessage. It's already getting too busy & clunky.
Can we get back to the days when Apple was innovating please.
Can we get back to the days when Apple was innovating please.
It’s funny how the top two responses are one in favor and one against. They won’t please everyone, no matter what they do.
Honestly, the only feature Messages is lacking is better reactions. I love the way Discord handles this, where they have a robust emoji system built in for reactions and they also allow you to upload custom ones. There’s really nothing else Messages needs to do. It’s great how it is.
Honestly, the only feature Messages is lacking is better reactions. I love the way Discord handles this, where they have a robust emoji system built in for reactions and they also allow you to upload custom ones. There’s really nothing else Messages needs to do. It’s great how it is.
Will be nice to have the Messages app updated. Expecting many changes.
It's useful to discern the two. Blue and Green.
You can't facetime or facetime audio green.
You may have to pay for overseas texts when messaging green.
You may have to pay for overseas photos/mms when messaging green.
I'd rather retain the visible differentiation between the two, rather than to ask for frequent updates about what phone/iCloud setup the receipts are running.
I'm sure there is more reasons I haven't thought of.
I guess I'm just getting old but I just want a simple messaging app. I don't need anything fancy.
Ugh...they're totally going to break it and the annoying thing is that it isn't currently broken. At worst, it is lacking in features. I was/am totally game for them scrapping what was in High Sierra through Catalina in favor of the Catalyst app they put in starting with Big Sur. Massive improvements all around. But, this sounds like Apple redoing everything to accommodate a new product and then creating mess out of it for pre-existing platforms.
Though, I must admit, a lot of this apprehension comes from the fact that there's still no clear idea as to what the point of this AR headset is.
Though, I must admit, a lot of this apprehension comes from the fact that there's still no clear idea as to what the point of this AR headset is.
Yep.
Hopefully it flops like Ping. Hi, bye.
Not a fan of AR in its current iteration
It takes about a 10 second google search to figure out the benefits of RCS.
Even if there is a headset released next years, it will never sell enough units to risk any change in one of the iPhone's most important apps with billions of messages. AR will live separately in its own app.
Maybe it will be a clone of Facebook Messenger.... the Gold Standard!
and o eliminate one of the biggest reasons people, especially in the US, purchase iPhones?
I don’t think people outside of the US understand how big iMessage actually is here.
To put it into perspective, I don’t know a single person in the US who uses WhatsApp or telegram.
Not a single person.
Not one.
I don’t know any US iPhone users who use it or android users who use it, no one I know in the US who uses it.
If anyone in the US uses it, the majority of the time it’s to communicate with people outside of the US.
Meanwhile, *every* iPhone user I know uses iMessage.
All of them.
And if we’re texting with Android users, we’re using Facebook or Discord.
Making iMessage cross platform would be one of the dumbest business moves they could make.
In the places where iMessage is popular, it would give them another reason not to purchase an iPhone, and in places where iMessage isn’t popular, it still doesn’t give them a reason to use it over WhatsApp or telegram, it’s just another service.
Absolutely no benefit whatsoever for Apple.
It’s basically like asking Apple to let you install macOS on your HP.
Why would they do that?
They don’t want your $99 a year, they want your $2000 to purchase a Mac.
In the same way, they don’t want your five dollars a month to use iMessage, they want your $1000 to purchase an iPhone, $500 to purchase an Apple Watch to go alongside it, $200 to purchase AirPods to go alongside that, and word of mouth to get other people using iMessage, which requires them to buy an Apple product.
Summary: RCS is an iMessage copycat for Android and for all phones that has 5G in few year.
Not as solid as it should be. It's had several VERY annoying bugs for years that have never been fixed. Year after year it continues to frustrate me on a daily basis.