OR a strategic plan by Apple to distract from the headlines of “Tim Cook Meeting with President Xi”…😉🤔That’s a surprise move…
OR a strategic plan by Apple to distract from the headlines of “Tim Cook Meeting with President Xi”…😉🤔That’s a surprise move…
Same way Messasges or any other encrypted data is routed. Unencrypted delivery header and encrypted message payload.I don't know how Apple could push encryption in this case...at least not end to end. Someone's going to be unencrypting to pass off to the other service somewhere.
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.
The carriers would still force them to adopt RCS eventually. At some point the old SMS technology will be degraded or killed off. Never underestimate the power of carriers in this situation.A tiny part of me wishes they would have instead developed an iMessage for Android and charged $2.99/month or $29/year for it.
It's not the Android users whining about bubble colours most of the time. Android users don't see the colours.The Android people will still whine about bubble colors, but at least they will get proper resolution on transferred media.
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).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.
If you were reading sites other than MR, with its shallow coverage of this, you would know exactly what Apple plans to implement.This is all just speculation; we have no idea how Apple will implement this.
I'm sure they considered this, and then realized that the number of Android users who would pay for such a service is nearly zero.A tiny part of me wishes they would have instead developed an iMessage for Android and charged $2.99/month or $29/year for it.
Memo to Romeo - if your Juliet trades you up because of your choice of phone, you've dodged a bullet.Memo to Juliet: If your Romeo is a green bubble kind of guy, trade up.
I thought EXACTLY the same thing when i read the headline: WTF?!? An April Fools prank in mid-November? I don’t get it.Checks date… it’s… not 1st April so it’s really happening?
It's not the Android users whining about bubble colours most of the time. Android users don't see the colours.
What the...what? Android people don't complain about bubble colors. We don't even see green bubbles. lolThe Android people will still whine about bubble colors,
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.
It's still fundamentally SMS though - I don't see the benefit for consumers to see 2 different colors if they get an SMS with RCS features?Green is SMS, RCS (with more features) could be green or some other color.
This will cause non-RCS SMS to die a quicker death, so the 2 will remain after a few years.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.
Youngsters? LOL most grown people on this very forum complain about them lolThey 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.
United States does not use Telegram or WhatsApp like the rest of the world does.We don’t even have RCS over here lmao