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Google Again Criticizes Apple for Not Adopting RCS for Messages App: 'Their Texting is Stuck in the 1990s'
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The telecom industry hasnāt moved on to RCS. A few carriers worldwide are using RCS, but the industry as a whole is still quite content with the profits they make from SMS. I looked up how many RCS messages are sent per year and, even with the huge number of capable Android phones out there, it was dwarfed by SMS. And even WhatsApp.
RCS isnāt made by Google, but Google RCS, that Google is pushing, IS provided solely by Google.
āRCSā (without the Google) as a technology is dead. Even the GSMA which proposed it has given up on it as of 2021.
Heck I donāt remember SMS in the 90ās. In the early 90ās, my dad went from a bag phone with a pager to a car phone to a Motorola StarTAC. None of those devices had text capacity.
My mother had a car phone then later a StarTAC.
My sister and I were stuck using payphones.
My mother had a car phone then later a StarTAC.
My sister and I were stuck using payphones.
Iām curious, if you send a video or audio via MMS, does that count against your 2gb?
Exactly. Itās not an āopen standardā if one company uses it.
And that's the gist of it. There's still carriers outside the US that charge per message, and have silly low data buckets. They're not going to implement RCS.
Google wants to implement their own version RCS. Carriers don't wanna play along. Apple doesn't either, why should they?
I had the MicroTAC (forerunner of the StarTAC and you bet your bippy it had texting. Like, does nobody remember where all that TXT SPK came from?
Although I'll concede that American carriers dragged their butts on implementing SMS, and INTER CARRIER SMS, oh my *fans flushed face*, that took them another half decade.
Are there any dumb phones that support RCS? Iām thinking not as the GSMA which would help direct and implement these sorts of things have given up on RCS and is simply supporting handset makers to continue to release SMS compliant devices. And, as long as thatās the case, there will always be SMS.
Theyāre actually pushing for their brand of RCS, dubbed āGoogle RCSā to replace SMS ONLY in the US. Of course, that would make the carrier that made the switch the least popular US carrier overnight as there are a large number of non-Android SMS devices still out there that would not be able to communicate over their network. Itās not surprising that no one is interested in taking Google seriously on this.
Do you believe that the EU would be pleased to hand over all messaging in EU countries to Googles āGoogle RCSā solution? Actually, theyāre handing over cell phone OS control to Apple and Google, so maybe so?
And, if theyāre pushing for non-EU company solutions anyway, why not WhatsApp? Already way more popular in the EU by far than Google RCS.
No photos of the kids for my sister. Oh well itās her fault for having Android. Iām really not that tribal. Iād be more likely to drop Apple.
Meh, eventually Apple being difficult here will piss people off and theyāll look for a solution that doesnāt involve Appleās hubris.
Thereās just a small number of US only users that see this as a problem(as many have said, other solutions have already taken over SMSās place depending on the region youāre in). And, that small number havenāt figured out how OR donāt want to figure out how to share using features and tools that were made specifically for sharing short and long form video, audio, images and all sorts of other media. Going back to what Tim Cook was asked, anyone that doesnāt know how to get a high resolution image to their mom, while having access to search engines (āHow to send a good quality pictureā) and a plethora of tools is working VERY hard at NOT knowing how to solve their problem!
It could also be a simple matter of a person wanting to be able to focus on one conduit for knowing what all their social media contacts are up to BUT not being that āhubā kind of person that everyone will change their tool usage habits for.
They see Google RCS as maybe being their Mattermost!I think that MOST people that want to send a video are using some form of social media where that kind of thing is not only supported, but offers far more creative input before posting. And, immediately makes it possible to share with an even wider group with little effort.
That was a pretty big black eye and I donāt think theyāve re-enabled it yet. Iād say they should get that straight, first, before trying to do anything else
Well, idk what country youāre in but neither Ameritech Wireless or Cellular One offered text messaging until at least 1999.
Both of them became AT&T or Verizon.
No, it may support some other interoperable protocol, but RCS is about as dead as a technology can be. The GSMA has stopped promoting it and if Google wasnāt pushing āGoogle RCSā, people wouldnāt even be aware of it!
So Apple not adopting a half-baked, non-encrypted, non-standard method of communication inorder to cater to the whims of a competitor (who coincidentially clearly can't come with their own messaging solution) is, according to you, "being difficult" and showing "hubris"?
SMS is one of those great ājust enough techā solutions. Do I need encryption to say āhiā to my brother? Or do I need read receipts let a group know āIāll be there in 5 minutesā? Do I need to know that a person is typing when Iāve asked them if they need anything from the store? Nope.
Simple, works for as close to 100% of the cellular enabled devices out there, and is available today.