if everyone had the same color, that would be even more confusing
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Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Better Interoperability With Android Devices
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This is great, and a pro-user move by Apple. This will improve my experience texting with non-Apple contacts. I'm sure the EU sniffing around might have spurred this, but I'll take it.
"more options=good"
nope. clearly more options confuses the user.
already explained myself. read it.
Of course, each one of those things comes with a pretty significant asterisk beside them.
I think they did here. The article notes they are adhering to GSM. Which is the standard cell companies use for LTE, etc.
From the description in Apple's statement, I think it's going to be another color besides iMessage blue.
According to TechRadar, Apple stated:
Techradar also stated that The RCS standard still doesn't support end-to-end encryption.
That verbiage suggests to me that Apple will want to give visual cues to its users when they're communicating via iMessage (with end-to-end encryption on), and when they're not. Which means some other color bubble besides blue will be used to represent RCS messages. Interoperability doesn't per se mean uniform color bubbles for all messaging services.
According to TechRadar, Apple stated:
Techradar also stated that The RCS standard still doesn't support end-to-end encryption.
That verbiage suggests to me that Apple will want to give visual cues to its users when they're communicating via iMessage (with end-to-end encryption on), and when they're not. Which means some other color bubble besides blue will be used to represent RCS messages. Interoperability doesn't per se mean uniform color bubbles for all messaging services.
Apple Announces Intention to Support RCS Messages ‘Next Year’
Link to: https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-support-rcs-in-2024
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"It’s a disgrace, in my opinion, that E2EE wasn’t a foundational part of the RCS spec from the start, but if Apple is going to support RCS, they should support RCS by-the-spec, not Google’s proprietary version."
Doesn't look like this is going to bring encryption, and will keep "green bubble" messages under tight control of your cell carrier. Modernizing features like group chats and rich media are still welcome.
Anyway, download signal.
No one seriously cares about those. Messaging is not some profitable enterprise - you should ask how WhatsApp makes money.
Good point. But still, good to see that Apple finally bends and acquiesces...
I can see it now.
1. Apple implements the RCS standard,
2. They work with the GSM Association to implement E2EE at the carrier level,
3. Google discontinues their work on the Google messages app and the Google RCS standard 😂.
Why would they change the color? It'll probably still be green.
That is e2e encryption that Google has the encryption keys to. Not what I would call security as that lets all of the US three letter agencies have complete and unfettered access. But dream on skulls of mush.
The multitude of options have been available in the Android world for years and most users have not seemed to have much trouble utilizing them. Is there something about the average Apple user that you think makes them less capable than Android users?
What's funny about this is so many Android users thinking they will now have blue bubbles when texting iPhone users. They get so hung up on that, it's weird.
Apple was never going to allow that. Even with RCS, your texts will still be green. Only iMessage based messages between iPhones will be blue.
Apple was never going to allow that. Even with RCS, your texts will still be green. Only iMessage based messages between iPhones will be blue.
Google dropped the "Chat" branding a while ago and now just calls it RCS.
Oh, OOPS it's been a couple of years since had a pixel. Thanks for the heads up!
Exactly. When I'm in the US, 99% of my messaging is on iMessage. When I'm in Mexico, 99% of my messaging is on WhatsApp. SMS and RCS are irrelevant.
This must be a sarcasm post, right?
Green is SMS, RCS (with more features) could be green or some other color.
To go from "Buy your mom an iPhone" to "We're adopting RCS" in less than a year is quite the pivot. This reeks of the EU, Apple and Google making some sort of behind the scenes deal...