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Does little to accommodate Google's true intention, which was implementation of Google's specific E2EE standard, instead Apple will push the consortium to a universal standard- does nothing to "solve" "blue bubble envy" as iMessage will continue to function as it currently does (so Droid RCS messages will still be green), does not add the iMessage specific enhancements.

So this is NOT a capitulation to Google's whining.

What it DOES do is fix the broken SMS photo and graphics transfer from iPhones to other phones, while maintaining similar interface and operability as SMS.

The Android people will still whine about bubble colors, but at least they will get proper resolution on transferred media.
 
Great news and unexpected. I thought we’d need to wait for them to be forced into it. Perhaps the anticipation of this is a great part of the reason they’ve reached the decision, but I give them some credit for it anyway. Ultimately it’s better for all users.
 
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Does little to accommodate Google's true intention, which was implementation of Google's specific E2EE standard, instead Apple will push the consortium to a universal standard- does nothing to "solve" "blue bubble envy" as iMessage will continue to function as it currently does (so Droid RCS messages will still be green), does not add the iMessage specific enhancements.

So this is NOT a capitulation to Google's whining.

What it DOES do is fix the broken SMS photo and graphics transfer from iPhones to other phones, while maintaining similar interface and operability as SMS.

The Android people will still whine about bubble colors, but at least they will get proper resolution on transferred media.

This is all just speculation; we have no idea how Apple will implement this. EDIT: To be clear, it's quite possible that regulators would require some standard of parity between the two.
 
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And builds on top of it. Universal Profile does not have encryption built into that standard.

It’s a mess, but if Apple can push encryption to being part of the standard itself that’s a win.
What do you think "encryption built into that standard" looks like? Data between clients and RCS nodes is already encrypted. End-to-end encryption is a client concern and Universal Profile shouldn't need to worry about it; its only concern is moving opaque data between clients (along with metadata like content type).

Google has already announced that they'll be moving to the recently-published MLS standard. It would be silly if this wasn't also the direction that Apple went.
 
This is all just speculation; we have no idea how Apple will implement this.
If you were reading sites other than MR, with its shallow coverage of this, you would know exactly what Apple plans to implement.

Sure, the plans might change, but at the moment the plan is as I described.
 
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We don’t even have RCS over here lmao

Or do we actually? I can’t even find a solid answer whether the standard is available in Italy or not
Does it even matter? Do carriers have to explicitly support it?

EDIT: Color me surprised. Looks like two of our carriers support RCS
 
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It's not the Android users whining about bubble colours most of the time. Android users don't see the colours.

They certainly do whine about it when their iPhone friends (stupidly) judge them for it. A significant factor for youngsters who haven't learned what's actually important.
 
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If you were reading sites other than MR, with its shallow coverage of this, you would know exactly what Apple plans to implement.

Sure, the plans might change, but at the moment the plan is as I described.

Which other sites?
 
Hmmm… will there be one message bubble color now? Will it be blue or green? If it’s blue, will the green Messages.app icon finally be changed to blue?
 
Because it adds a ton of complexity. You now have iMessage + non-RCS sms + RCS sms bubbles.

you know you can't video chat with green bubbles. with RCS? who knows, depends which RCS is used.
This will cause non-RCS SMS to die a quicker death, so the 2 will remain after a few years.
 
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We don’t even have RCS over here lmao
United States does not use Telegram or WhatsApp like the rest of the world does.

You have iPhones (and other Apple products) with the Messages app. Android, on the other hand, is a free for all. In a perfect world, Messages by Google (formerly Android Messages) would be the only messaging app on the platform for SMS/MMS/RCS. Instead, you have a gazillion apps from Google, manufacturers (Samsung), carriers (Verizon), and others all competing in the same space. And each app come with their own share of compatibility problems.
 
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