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Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Better Interoperability With Android Devices
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Actually people outside of the US default to WeChat and Whatsapp for a majority of their communication, and they really care about having them on their phone. Just look at your app usage history, and tell me that you don't spend a good chunk of your time on messaing apps. What if WhatsApp adoption continued to grow, and all the cool kids in the US eventually began to use WhatsApp as their primary chat app?
Apple does care quite a bit about maintaining a grip on iMessage for all sorts of reasons; ecosystem tie-in being the most important. If people stop spending time on iMessage, it'll be that much easier for them to see the iPhone as just another device, and eventually buy something else in the future. Sure, Apple doesn't make money directly off you sending texts over iMessage (although it conveniently suggests to backup your messages on its expensive iCloud storage). But the bigger picture is so freaking important.
This is why Apple thought that taking the largest, intentional, pain point out of iMessage would glue its users back to the platform internationally. Hence the RCS adoption.
Wow! Didn’t see that happening, what’s next? Cowboys make it back to the Super Bowl???
Well, okay. So really it is iPhone users complaining about the bubbles, and then Android users complaining about the iPhone users complaining about bubbles.
Bubbleception.
Who hates blue bubbles? I don’t don’t certainly not “everyone”
Why would Android users care about the color of the bubbles in iMessage? They don't even see it. It's the issue between Apple and its [pompous] customers.
How is this good for iPhone users who didn’t want it?
Where will the key exchange happen? How will that cross services? This is not the same as any other encrypted data as end to end encryption usually happens within a single service. Even with encrypted email it can't be read outside of that mail service's ecosystem without providing credentials to the initial service. Signal and iMessage aren't going to just work out of the box.
So how am I supposed to give iphone users green bubbles now?😁 I never see a green bubble on my phone!
The part where it's a client concern is where I'm a little lost. Wouldn't this mean that only clients of the same type would be able to have E2EE?
Why would an iPhone user prefer to get an SMS over an RCS message?
Funny, my S23U has Messages as its only texting app for SMS/MMS/RCS. There's no Samsung app nor is there any app provided by my carrier.
Now, I do have Messenger and WhatsApp, but those are only used for those two particular services. Last I checked, they both exist on iOS as separate apps as well.
So really, we're already in your so-called "perfect world".
Great, if/when it happens. Given Google’s business model and 10 year record of starting and stopping constantly on what they promise it wouldn’t surprise me if they rolled out yet another client to bake it into and abandon their 4th (5th?) attempt 🤷♂️
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Is that a shared view among the Apple customers? Memo to you: moronic statements are just that - moronic statements.
It's not pompous for a customer to be displeased at losing functionality in their messaging client because of those green contacts. This was developed by experience over time, not arrogance or elitism.
Again, no one serious cares about those. Europe is a shrinking market and China is not a safe one.
Because I have no issue with sms. Is there some lingering bugs with SMS im not aware of?
The saying doesnt go “if it aint broke, fix it”
They should make RCS purple or something. But they'll probably keep them green because of the stigma.
If you don't want it, pretend it doesn't exist. Your life will remain the same regardless. In fact, on Android it is optional, so i hope Apple makes it optional. Happy now?
iMessage was never any kind of incentive to stick with iOS only for me. Sure, it works well, but so does RCS, and even SMS can get the job done for text. I use both an iPhone and an Android phone.
RCS offers a different set of features. For example one can send hires pictures over RCS. Is it really that difficult to understand?
I mean if that's what you prefer. I don't think any Android user would complain about that. We don't have to look at it. Honestly, you should be able to make the bubbles any color you want.