Cool! The thing I’m most excited for is Google to finally shut up and stop their crying.
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Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Better Interoperability With Android Devices
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Yeah, isn’t it? You are embarrassing yourself lol.
It is about time for a new messaging platform from Google. My bet is that they roll out YouTube Messaging to other apps since YouTube’s the only service of theirs that people can’t avoid!I also guess that with this, the timing is ripe for Google to drop support for RCS next year. I think it’s about them for them to announce their next messaging protocol?
Can someone familiar with RCS answer these questions?
1. Do operators generally charge for RCS messaging? Eg my operator chargers for MMS, but SMS is free
2. Do international RCS messages incur a higher charge?
3. Is there international carrier compatibility for RCS messages? I remember during MMS heydays, this didn’t work properly
Looking forward to ditching WhatsApp for good
1. Do operators generally charge for RCS messaging? Eg my operator chargers for MMS, but SMS is free
2. Do international RCS messages incur a higher charge?
3. Is there international carrier compatibility for RCS messages? I remember during MMS heydays, this didn’t work properly
Looking forward to ditching WhatsApp for good
I would be so happy if this hurts WhatsApp. I’d like to stop using it too.
I’m not really familiar with it myself, but, if I had to guess, for 1) if the carrier charges for MMS and not SMS that they’ll charge for RCS. MMS operates outside of the limited SMS bandwidth, and RCS does as well. 2) That probably depends on your carrier. For me in North America, it would, I’m pretty sure. 3) One would hope, particularly in Europe, but, when it comes to RCS, intercompatibility never seems to have been a carrier priority.
One thing that blue bubbles tell you is that messages are encrypted end to end. As I understand it, the RCS universal Profile does not currently support end-to-end encryption, so RCS bubbles will logically be green.
It will be interesting to see if Apple works with the GMSA to implement end-to-end RCS encryption.
It will be interesting to see if Apple works with the GMSA to implement end-to-end RCS encryption.
Also, these days, the blue bubbles indicate that your recipients can use features like chat effects, iMessage apps, stickers, etc., features that were all added to iMessage after its introduction.
Edit: Oh, and the blue bubbles also mean “yep, they’re an iPhone user, so you can use FaceTime, too”. And some carriers apparently still price gauge for SMS/MMS and likely will for RCS. So bubble color still provides valuable information about communication protocol. (Which is why I feel RCS should get a new color. Maybe Maroon Red to go with Google Messages’s app icon’s color?)
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I think you misunderstood. I am not interested in any other messengers, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. No matter what comes along, I'm good with iMessage.
As for the EU’s regulatory efforts, what we’re most likely to see now is the EU force WhatsApp to support RCS in some way.
It sounds like that's the plan.
"Apple says it won't be supporting any proprietary extensions that seek to add encryption on top of RCS and hopes, instead, to work with the GSM Association to add encryption to the standard."
https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/breaking-apple-will-support-rcs-in-2024
If I'm reading this right, you're either confused about the difference between Messages and iMessage or you just never message anyone that doesn't have an iPhone.
Why is this stupid? RCS is simply the modern standard to SMS/MMS. It will make communication through text message better for everyone involved. Everyone benefits from this improvement. Instead of thinking which corporation wins or loses I prefer to think of how customers benefit. Adopting RCS is pro-customer and both sides will benefit with much improved texting between both platforms.
It could be that he just uses the Messages app exclusively and may or may not have Android using contacts but just doesn’t understand the difference between green bubbles and blue?
If that’s the case, here goes: blue bubbles are messages that are iMessage messages. Green messages are what Messages sends if, for whatever reason, iMessage isn’t working (so, if the recipient isn’t on iMessage, or you’ve got a weak signal, or iMessage is having an outage, or something like that). The Messages app sends both and will almost certainly be the app that sends RCS messages.
Why would Android users whine about bubble colors? They don't get any bubble colors on their phones. The only people whe care about bubble colors are those who see them. The whole point of RCS is to let everyone have a better messaging experience regardless of platform. Which this should help accomplish.
Nah, some of the earlier RCS flame wars were better than this one. That said, all those RCS threads blurred together after a while.
And iOS becomes just another variant of Android. What’s next, regulators force Apple to adopt Android as the iPhone’s operating system? At this point that doesn’t sound so far off the mark when it’s supposedly all about customer convenience.
So you would rather carriers read your texts than Google being able to see useless metadata?
The feature I've always wanted is the ability to add new people and also allow people to leave group chats without having to start entirely new ones.