AFAIK, my alarm system communicates via LTE (and Ethernet) with the central office, but certain implementations of it will send out SMS for alarm alerts.
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Google Reveals When to Expect RCS Support on iPhone for Improved Texting With Android Users
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Nothing better than staying at the inferior technology by choice.
But I got you, I've disabled iMessage too, because why use it - SMS is way more cool. The way it sounds S M S /ˌes.emˈes/. Can't beat it!
Exactly. Older ones usually use SMS/calls exclusively and newer ones usually use LTE/Ethernet (data) and SMS/calls as a backup.
I have no issues with sms. But I mainly only talk to iPhone ppl. I like knowing if the person I’m talking to has iPhone.
Any ppl I know who use lagdroid, we talk on other apps.
Well I would expect Apple to still differentiate between iMessage and RCS protocol. So I believe (and hope) it's not needed to disable RCS in order to know whether the message went via iMessage or RCS.
Also this Android shaming is kind of childish. We're mature, why disparage someone for his operating system choice? Or for any choice in that matter.
Exactly as they should. lol
I have no issue using sms or mms
That’s melodramatic. I’m fine with sms
WhatsApp and FB Messenger are cross platform? And at least FB Messenger is universal as you can launch it via any web browser? (and you can kind of do that too via WhatsApp Web access)
I’m not shaming. People can use whatever they want.
I simply like to know if I’m talking to an iPhone user.
I also strongly dislike these attempts to make iOS similar or relatable to lagdroid.
Hopefully iMessage stays on iPhone and iPad only and I’m turning off RCS immediately
Yeah ...
Definitely not shaming. At least be fair and straight and stay behind your behavior.
It’s not a problem. They are cross platform.
Tbh ppl I use these apps with won’t change because of RCS.
This is why Every other country uses apps and not RCS. The only ppl who care are American android users mainly.
Heh. Actually, when iMessage first came out, it was buggy and unreliable, at least in my limited experience at the time. So I turned it off and left it off to give iMessage more time to mature. Now I use iMessage with SMS fall back exclusively. No other messaging apps at all.
iMessage with RCS fall back will be a nice step up, not just for myself with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max in October, but also presumably with my daughter's iPhone XR running iOS 17.5 / 18.0.
This was discussed already, but apparently I didn't explain myself well enough. The point I was trying to make is that RCS is both cross platform and universal by default - it won't require any third party apps.
I guess web access could loosely fit that definition, sort of, but who wants to use a web browser on an iPhone for instant messaging? That would be so clunky.
I would hope RCS would be a third colour, but most people seem to think that RCS will be green like SMS is now. I think Apple even confirmed that, but I'm not sure.
Android is laggy. How is that shaming anyone who uses it? It’s a terrible OS and it’s unfortunate it is the only other alternative (and iOS is being bastardize to work like it) but idc ppl want to use it
What's the point of ssl encryption without trust? or do you want to when you message someone for the first time have to accept the key. If someone has a different key and says they got a new phone, do you want to just have to trust them? This is why e-commerce sites don't use self signed certs.
iMessages does more than the RCS protocol. Google messages does more than the RCS protocol. Google likes to pretend all their features are RCS but they aren't. So it's reasonable that you'd be confused about what is and isn't part of the RCS protocol.
That's not true and objective. But whatever you say.
Actually I've recently switched back to the iOS and I'm surprised how slow iOS is. You can't perform any action until the animation ends (i.e. you can't swipe or tap back in the settings app until the menu animation ends). Typing on the keyboard was lagging (seems to be fixed with recent iOS update). Can't run any application in the background - when syncing photos to my local NAS I have to keep running the app in the foreground. Can't download offline maps while having the app in the background and so on.
I'm not saying iOS is bad OS by any means (I would not use it if that was the case), but saying Android is laggy and "terrible OS" is nothing far from the truth and it's just saying you have no real experience with recent Android phones - and I'm not talking about budget 299 USD phones, but Android phones in the same price level as iPhones 15.
Yes, that's how the E2E encryption in the messaging apps usually works. And it's fine.
Pretty Good Privacy - Wikipedia
My dude, RCS was a standard before google added it to their messaging. That standard DOES NOT have E2EE. Google brands their messaging as RCS, but they have proprietary extensions that go far beyond the standard. Google's E2EE encryption depends on google for key management. IT's not a standard.
My response was to someone who claimed it was "the same damn thing". My iPad, Apple Watch, and Macs should not be relying on my iPhone to be on and connected for my messaging app to work. I don't consider that good, I consider that a functional alternative to good...until I need to do something when my phone is dead.
I get it, but the phone manufacturers could be the ones banning SMS and the providers can leave it on as an alternative.
No but they push it the most, with the Verge claiming iPhone users judge people whose text messages show up as green. And that people are left out, ghosted and shamed because they’re a green bubble. If you didn’t know better and all you read was the Verge you’d think Apple intentionally made icky green bubbles just for people who use Android phones as a way of making them feel inferior.
Why Apple gives Android users a green bubble in iMessage
It comes down to messaging protocols.
www.theverge.com
The green bubble problem is about to get even worse
iOS 17 could grow the divide between iPhone and Android.
www.theverge.com
Samsung made a sad Giphy page filled with comeback GIFs to send people who diss green bubbles
I don’t get it
www.theverge.com
This is a distinction people need to understand going forward.
That sort of makes sense. But what about bad signal scenarios? I mean the remote places where your internet is basically non-working and all you get is just the basic calls and SMS? It should be there as a backup in my opinion. And also what about older phones without RCS support? Should we just cut them off? I mean I get it, the future is clear, but still I'm not sure about about forceful SMS ban.
In settings, turn on Reduce Motion, that will remove the animations. Otherwise, I'm not getting in the middle of these pointless platform arguments.