No really, have you ever tried to send a photo or video to an Android user via iMessage. You may think it works based on what you see in the app, but the Android user receives pixelated garbage. That's what needs to be fixed here.
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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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Almost no-one uses WhatsApp in Norway. I have never used it and I only know one person who has it.
Please explain how not implementing RCS, something that doesn't even support E2EE without Google's proprietary extension, is an example of Apple "lagging behind competitors".
RCS is a halfbaked pile of trash. Apple is right in their to refusal to adopt it
Funny. All over the entire world people are picking Apple iPhones just for this messaging that is supposedly stuck in the 90’s. Sounds like somebody is jealous.
Not likely given the installed user base, but the lack of an agreed upon common standard is a big drawback. For international messaging and where iOS is the smaller platform, there is no doubt iMessage is less useful and in many cases, for travelers, more expensive requiring an international plan if you are not on wifi when you need it.
Then get an iOS device and stop with the complaining. Apple is under no obligation to cater to those on Android
I wonder if anyone, back then, attempted a mechanical computer that would allow the user to use a conventional typewriter style entry device and it converted the letters to Morse? Then did the reverse on the other side? Printing letters. I know nothing of that old tech. I could be speaking lunacy, or it was actually done at some point.
Because iPhone users tend to have more money and Google desperately wants that sweet, sweet data to sell.
No one is jealous. I am not sure you really understand what is going on. In terms cross platform compatibility, iMessage is light years behind. I travel internationally regularly for business and I can't even begin to fully communicate how much more difficult this makes messaging and the added expense.
iOS users are generating revenue for Apple, when iOS users are happy with iPhones why would Apple spend money on making Android users happy ?
And who knows when Google will ditch RCS, they have tendency to dith products.
I am iOS user, i don't want RCS, i am happy with iMessages.
Amd Google is desperate now.
And who knows when Google will ditch RCS, they have tendency to dith products.
I am iOS user, i don't want RCS, i am happy with iMessages.
Amd Google is desperate now.
Are you completely sure your friends aren't just sending you pictures of their ass?
Depends on where, inside the US (Apple’s home market and still their largest single market), iPhones are now more common than all Android phones combined and iMessage is king. That’s why the blue/green bubble thing is such a part of US culture right now and the rest of the world is confused lol
we are OK with iMessages, Google can use RCS.
it took how many years for Google to create a decent messaging app ?
after how many iterations ?
they prbably ki;;ed 3 messaging apps in last 5 years.
Google how is stadia and the others garbage bin products going on over there?
This becomes the telcos fault.
In Australia no one ever looks at sms cost or call costs. We pay for the data only as every plan has unlimited texts and calls.
Because Google is not asking everyone to use the standard and open RCS that the carriers are supporting. They are asking that everyone use their fork of it with their extensions that pass through their infrastructure. Do you think Google is just trying to be nice and make sure you have pretty videos and group texts with your android friends for no reason?
i use iMesages for every one who owns an iPhone, if they don't have an iPhone then i use What's App.
Google can't adopt Facetime or iMessage as Apple won't allow it. So, in this case, Apple needs to play nice with others. Steve Jobs even said that Facetime would be open source and that never materialized. People should be able to communicate on a unified standard and not keep others out because they won't want to buy their product.
Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’
‘The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage.’www.theverge.com
Get back to us when you are ready to compel developers to provide software for MacOS and Nintendo to put Mario and Pokémon on PlayStation.
