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Google Reveals When to Expect RCS Support on iPhone for Improved Texting With Android Users

mike2q said:
Your comments on here regularly show that you are completely obsessed with being anti-android. To say you own three phones and two of them are of a type that make you froth at the mouth when other people even mention them makes me laugh. You're either a liar OR you make poor personal choices. Either way, they're just phones and not worth investing hate in. Between work and home I have both a 15 Pro Max and a Galaxy S24 Ultra. They are both great and neither are "laggy" as you say. In fact, the still not fixed iOS micro stutters make the Pro Max feel a bit more laggy. Still, both are great.
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I have no need to lie. I brought one and won three other. It’s unfortunate my opinion of android bothers you so.

How do you say neither lag then claim iPhone lags 😂
 
mike2q said:
False. The only ones who care are iOS users. Android already has RCS and it works great. When an Android user is part of a group message Apple makes the experience worse for all of the iPhone users in the group. The only reason an Android user would care is because their iPhone friends in the group message complain. Look, It's fine if you don't like Android as an operating system but it seems odd to me that you have this visceral loathing for it. Android, it would seem, lives rent free in your head.
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iPhone users don’t care lol. Make it make sense. The only ones who want iMessage on android or RCS android users. iPhone users are just fine with iMessage.

Android users are the ones complaining about being left out of chats or being bullied 😂

So yes this is an android thing. There is no benefit really for RCS for me and millions of other android users.

80 percent of the world is using apps.

Like I said I’m turning RCS off and I hope many iPhone users will as well.
 
Scotty2Hotty said:
A welcome change. We've all gotta move away from SMS.
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You know what, I still like the standard SMS. I use WhatsApp and other messaging services, but for the messages app, I have iMessage switched off and just use SMS. I hope there’ll be a way for me to switch off RCS when it becomes available for iPhones and just continue to use SMS.
 
Quackington said:
You know what, I still like the standard SMS. I use WhatsApp and other messaging services, but for the messages app, I have iMessage switched off and just use SMS. I hope there’ll be a way for me to switch off RCS when it becomes available for iPhones and just continue to use SMS.
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Why would you want it off?
 
EugW said:
This is my superficial take on things:

The companies are Chinese owned companies producing for the Chinese domestic market. The market is huge but skews to the lower end because that’s what most people can afford. But there are a ton of different designs because there are a ton of customers who will buy them.

They tried selling to the US market but were bested by the likes of Samsung at the high end, and popular brands like Huawei were actually essentially banned by the US govt.

Here in Canada, I own a Huawei monitor, but it is not sold in the US (at least by mainstream retailers) because of the Huawei ban. Huawei has the highest market share of mobile handsets in China but sales in the US are effectively zero because of the ban.

The US government says it’s a national security issue, and while there is likely good reason for that, the fact that it acts as an anti-China protectionism probably plays into it too.
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I can see that. Thanks. I know my Honor Magic V2 is only “permitted” to run on T-Mobile but not supported and not allowed on any of the other major carriers.
 
hacky said:
To be fair, it's Apple's fault. iMessage is not open, so Google can not implement even if they wanted.

And Apple notoriously resisted from implementing RCS, which is fixing this mess.
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iMessage not being open is not Apple's fault. Apple resisted for a very, very short time...primarily because the implementation of RCS failed to launch so many times. And even now, they're going to need to do the work to make the standard better that Google didn't.
 
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Iconoclysm said:
iMessage not being open is not Apple's fault. Apple resisted for a very, very short time...primarily because the implementation of RCS failed to launch so many times. And even now, they're going to need to do the work to make the standard better that Google didn't.
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I understood that Craig nixed the allowance of iMessage on Android. That has been Apple’s stance ever since.
 
Since Apple has paired with Google to implement RCS, will they also pick Gemini for the AI efforts? I guess I'll be shocked if they don't at this point.
 
Iconoclysm said:
iMessage not being open is not Apple's fault. Apple resisted for a very, very short time...primarily because the implementation of RCS failed to launch so many times. And even now, they're going to need to do the work to make the standard better that Google didn't.
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Further, Apple actually tried to sell carriers on the idea, they weren’t interested. Wonder how different THAT would have made things. :)
www.idownloadblog.com

How Apple tried, and failed, to push carriers toward adopting a standardized iMessage

Former iOS chief Scott Forstall has revealed that Apple once tried to talk major wireless carriers into adopting a standardized version of its proprietary iMessage service.
www.idownloadblog.com www.idownloadblog.com
 
scorpio vega said:
iPhone users don’t care lol. Make it make sense. The only ones who want iMessage on android or RCS android users. iPhone users are just fine with iMessage.

Android users are the ones complaining about being left out of chats or being bullied 😂

So yes this is an android thing. There is no benefit really for RCS for me and millions of other android users.

80 percent of the world is using apps.

Like I said I’m turning RCS off and I hope many iPhone users will as well.
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You are clearly blinding yourself to the many iPhone users here even on MacRumors that have stated they would like a better experience when messaging non-iPhone friends and family. This is especially true with group messages. Not everyone thinks leaving friends out of chats because they don't have the "right phone" funny.
But look, if that's who you are and you really want to turn off the feature just out of spite then that's up to you. I seriously doubt many iPhone users will disable this though. It would make no sense to deteriorate the experience for all parties involved just because one or two friends own a different brand of phone. No one wants to install a bunch of messaging apps but most want a consistent modern experience. Ideally we'd all be using Signal messenger as it's open source and cross platform but since that's not going to happen then this is the next best thing.
 
Hails09 said:
And how do you know if you will be able to turn off RCS
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I’d be surprised if you can’t.

mike2q said:
You are clearly blinding yourself to the many iPhone users here even on MacRumors that have stated they would like a better experience when messaging non-iPhone friends and family. This is especially true with group messages. Not everyone thinks leaving friends out of chats because they don't have the "right phone" funny.
But look, if that's who you are and you really want to turn off the feature just out of spite then that's up to you. I seriously doubt many iPhone users will disable this though. It would make no sense to deteriorate the experience for all parties involved just because one or two friends own a different brand of phone. No one wants to install a bunch of messaging apps but most want a consistent modern experience. Ideally we'd all be using Signal messenger as it's open source and cross platform but since that's not going to happen then this is the next best thing.
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Macrumors users are not indicative of iPhone users and most don’t care about RCS. It’s a vocal minority.

I use different apps for different ppl. I don’t want RCS and I’m encouraging my circle to disable.
 
scorpio vega said:
I’d be surprised if you can’t.


Macrumors users are not indicative of iPhone users and most don’t care about RCS. It’s a vocal minority.

I use different apps for different ppl. I don’t want RCS and I’m encouraging my circle to disable.
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A bit sad if that’s your attitude towards a bit of software
 
Iconoclysm said:
Yes, but that's going off the topic of what I responded to completely. Which was that Apple should abandon iMessage and use ONLY RCS.
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I don't see why they really need iMessage other than platform differentiation. I think Apple of the past would have worked with the GSMA to make their iMessage ideas part of the RCS standard, rather than making it proprietary. But now that they are in a monopoly position they can pull the ladder up from behind them.
 
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So it will still require internet connection? or RCS is a replacement to traditional SMS (depends on carriers if thats the case)?
 
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