This was around the time Google came up with their version of RCS.
RCS was not the proposed standard at the time, just one of the recommendations.
If I remember correctly, one of the proposals was Android iMessage and Apple said no.
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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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This was around the time Google came up with their version of RCS.
RCS was not the proposed standard at the time, just one of the recommendations.
If I remember correctly, one of the proposals was Android iMessage and Apple said no.
Just to help clarify who supports RCS and who does not.
www.androidcentral.com
This is a list as of 2021.
2022 news on this:
9to5google.com
Every country and carrier that supports Google RCS
RCS has modernized messaging on Android with chat features reminiscent of standalone chat apps and the iPhone-only iMessage app.
www.androidcentral.com
This is a list as of 2021.
2022 news on this:
Google Messages rolls out group chat end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in beta
Starting today, Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in group chats for Messages users enrolled in the open beta...
9to5google.com
That makes little sense.
That functionality would need to be available at the recipient spot, not the send. Unless there was a way to identify at time of send what software/OS the recipient was using.
Not sure how the iPhones are using RCS when it's not implemented for them. Maybe through a second app, not sure, but I'd think the carrier would still need to implement it for the device for it to work since it's a messaging service.
EDIT: OIC. You have to use Google's RCS shell, ie put another G-app on your device that just happens to have access to all your contacts and any text information that may be sensitive that you're sending, thinking it's secure. Nah.
It makes all the sense. This shows rcs has no support from the carriers. Rcs should drop down to sms as the common protocol.
I only use email if it's something that should be saved somewhere. I always tell my wife this but she still messages
What?
Those are the kids devices and none of them are less than 6 months old. Was answering that asked question.
RCS works on the Android devices and if an RCS message is sent to the any of the iPhones, the message never arrives in any form.
Not.
If Apple decided to disable iMessage from handling SMS/MMS that is not an issue with SMS/MMS but rather on the recipient platform - iMessage. There is nothing you could do on the SMS/MMS side to make iMessage handle it.
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Why though? Because Google wants it? Where is the incentive to carriers for the engineering lift to make RCS a common protocol? And which flavor of RCS? Google themselves haven’t committed to a final version as they’re actively tweaking it and the API’s.
So why should the carriers adopt a work in progress when a change from Google could render their work nonfunctional?
Oh I assumed you meant the iPhones were using Google Messages and receiving RCS comms as well. I think they would if they could use Google Messages, unsure on that part, but GMess apparently works without the carrier implementing RCS. Probably because it uses Google's RCS shell.
SMS isn't owned by Google; the RCS shell that Google is wanting Apple to implement is.
And conversely, even if Apple enables RCS, it probably won't work with Google's RCS shell and we're back to square one.
RCS is not secure it has no encryption by default and if the carrier does not support it or its not enabled on the phone it goes no where.
apples not forcing anything some people are forcing themselves to not use any of the multitude of existing apps, thats on them not on anyone else.
RCS is not supported by the majority of carriers around the world, also its not secure
I dont disagree. Google is trying to be relevant in the intensely competitive messaging front.
Which doesn’t make any sense unless they have a means to monetize it. Which makes me really question what is the end goal here? Trying to keep people in their messaging apps (which again, how does that generate them money)?
Given their partnerships with governments I really wonder why they’re offering to host the E2EE encryption on their servers as well.
Apple, like any other large tech company, has shady practices. But their business model is still very clearly based on selling hardware (services are climbing but it doesn’t negate this yet). Most of Tech is data mining behind the scenes of otherwise “free” products.
lol that 'globally' has a very small niche, the majority of carriers around the world do not support rcs