Yup keep it green. The green and blue thing just represented messaging feature differences but now the green bubble would have the same or near the same feature as blue bubble. If they want to change color to signify when RCS is on, i vote black bubble.
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Apple to Adopt RCS Messaging Standard for Better Interoperability With Android Devices
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They never said they were, just that it wasn't a priority. Everything else was rank speculation.
Hopefully they give Apple the code for their Astro mode for the iPhone 16’s.
I kind of hate any time Google gets a win. I think this is a stupid move, as it’s less incentive for people to stick with iOS.
I guess things like Nothing Chat are bringing acute awareness for users that there are 3rd party services that will let users offer up their Apple ID and password to a potentially unscrupulous 3rd party company. The fear of all this user data being gobbled up and leaked or hacked is more terrifying to Apple than maintaining the walled garden of iMessage.
A similar thing happened with Bootcamp which was unthinkable until a dude won a competition to get Windows booting on an Intel Mac back in 2006. The prospect of users all hacking their Macs with some custom bootloader was more horrifying to Apple than the interoperability of letting users boot Windows safely on their Mac.
A similar thing happened with Bootcamp which was unthinkable until a dude won a competition to get Windows booting on an Intel Mac back in 2006. The prospect of users all hacking their Macs with some custom bootloader was more horrifying to Apple than the interoperability of letting users boot Windows safely on their Mac.
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Does this mean the “Oh, you don’t have WhatsApp? Why? Well, then you’re missing out, everyone uses it, it’s up to you to join us and stay in touch” will finally end?
Well wasn’t FaceTime and iMessage supposed to be an open standard when it was announced?
Perhaps it was over security issues. Google developed it, so I bet they wanted to harvest data from it. I'm glad Apple is joining the RCS consortium. I'm sure they'll push for good security across devices.
Eh… what make owning an Android being morally bankrupt. I didn’t know iPhone users are in moral high ground.
BTW everybody
RCS support =/= iMessage
If you know Apple, you damn well know they will gimp it for Android users on their end somehow. They're not that dumb.
RCS support =/= iMessage
If you know Apple, you damn well know they will gimp it for Android users on their end somehow. They're not that dumb.
I find this sentence interesting "Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association."
I've read time and time again, that Google's RCS is not the GSM standard, so the way I see this, they will add RCS, BUT not Google's version of RCS, so it will not be encrypted, or have the other Google "improvements".
Seems to me they just wanted to shut Google up, keep the EUdistracted calm, and leave this whole issue behind.
I've read time and time again, that Google's RCS is not the GSM standard, so the way I see this, they will add RCS, BUT not Google's version of RCS, so it will not be encrypted, or have the other Google "improvements".
Seems to me they just wanted to shut Google up, keep the EU
I actually never had a group chat in my whole life. The idea alone sounds annoying.
You're using a phone made by a morally bankrupt company.
This is all totally worth it for all the tears. People actually concerned whether their bubbles will remain blue. What a time to be alive. 😂
The key phrase here is "adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association." Google has built proprietary stuff on top of this and I'm quite certain Apple's standards-based implementation will not completely mesh with Google's proprietary version.
At least make it easily upgradeable. I’d love to put 16 or 32 gb of ram in my iPhone.
Google didn't develop it, it was developed by the GSM Association. Google has made "improvements" to it, and the backhaul runs through Google, not the carriers, hence everyone's comment that Google is just doing this for the data.
That's like the responses I see from Android users about Apple getting their way.
While I am happy about this news, but the timing is suspicious.
Later next year probably around iOS 18 updates, I can’t help by thinking lots of iPhone will be on chopping block. This Apple’s way to get people upgrade.
Later next year probably around iOS 18 updates, I can’t help by thinking lots of iPhone will be on chopping block. This Apple’s way to get people upgrade.