who else you going to go to? Google 🤣 they are literally the king of data collection and selling. They also don't even have group E2EE rolled out on their RCS they keep trying to promote. If you want people to even consider changing you have to at least match what the competition offers and then offer more.
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Google Urges Apple Not to 'Drop the Ball' on Fixing Messaging in New Billboard Pushing RCS
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I wonder if it is a failure of the carrier network... or a failure of the dentist's cloud-based messaging service or whatever.
I'm guessing your dentist is using some sort of messaging service like Podium. I doubt the dentist office is texting on an actual smartphones. (but I could be wrong)
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Health care is using whatever snake oil someone can sell them. Most are bad, probably because the provider wants cheap, but some check in software is pretty good.
The encryption that Google is using isn’t part of the standard. It runs through Google.
Also known as, it’s incomplete. Apple is fully aware of the dynamics of the protocol. Google doesn’t even have all of its ducks in a row when it comes to chat.While it's not a part of RCS standard (yet?), encryption can be enabled through the app as Google has done with their Messages app.
Google enables end-to-end encryption for Android’s default SMS/RCS app
Both users need Google Messages, RCS needs to be on, and it’s for 1:1 chats only.arstechnica.com
and it's being tested for group chats
Google Messages appears to be in early testing on end-to-end encryption on group chats
Google Messages seems to be in early testing on end-to-end encryption for RCS messages sent in a group chat.9to5google.com
People like to dunk on Apple, but they have chosen not to adopt RCS yet. They do however contribute heavily to actual standards like USB, Qi, Bluetooth, Matter and other initiatives.
Great post sir, and if I might modify it a little,
’If you love your mom, buy her an iPhone’.
Well, I'd say Signal is the gold standard for encrypted messaging, but, yeah, iMessage is much preferred vs RCS.
"tired" of having to carry around lightning cables?
I'll bet you didn't tire of carrying MicroUSB for a few years until USB-C became more prevalent though
And tired ... like lightning cable is 'heavy' or 'exhausting' vs just simply annoyed or frustrated. I think the latter two words are better used here or more akin to what you mean.
And I never stated ANYTHING about using Thunderbolt for charging a keyboard or Mouse. I stated using for an iPhone Pro model in facilitating using ProRes Video editing or ProRAW picture editing. ProRAW can be ok for editing say 100/1000 photos over USB3.1/3.2 protocol _ just make sure you have the RIGHT USB-C cable that supports that btw, while 25+ ProRES video's you'll be VERY happy with a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 cable connection and spec.
BTW using a Thunderbolt3/4 cable means you never have to worry about having the wring USB-C cable for the USB spec of your phone or other device!
Many android phones use USB-C port but most use 3.1 speed or 3.2 and some still use USB2.0 speeds!!!
So again the PORT is not enough for all use cases. And in time you'll be JUST as annoyed and frustrated at the spec confusion soon enough as your device list grows or changes and you forget to change out such cables to support new devices.
i use MacOS, my wife uses Windows, i can't share KeyNote, Numbers files with here, there is no reason why Apple can't make KeyNote and Numbers programs for Windows.
the list is endless.
Google didn't have a good messaging app for like 10 years, suddenly now Google wants Apple to ditch iMessages which has been around for like 15 years and start using technology created by Google ?
Why would Apple do that ?
And based on Google's history they will kill google messenger using RCS and start using new technology in few months
most people use third party messaging services, i would love to see the numbers, no of iPhone users sending messages to Android users using SMS will be like 0.01%.
Google wants Apple users data, that's the plan.
and what next all mobile devices should use same OS developed by EU ?
bringing people together ?
You couldn't be more wrong.
The US is behind everyone and still relies primarily on SMS for Android users.
you know there are apps like What's App, WeChat that people can use to communicate with people who have friends on Android platforms, i use them, it is awesome, you should try it, i have been doing this for like 5 years now.
Law makers who doesn't know **** about technology should not make laws.
Yes there is. Because companies fence off valuable features from competitors. No surprise.
Example: Apple can’t let you natively write to MS formatted disks, other than FAT32.
There are workarounds in Terminal I believe.
Yes Sir!
But they make laws about many other things that they know nothing about, it’s not just a tech thing.
Read my post, when you have a 89 year old grand father that can barely work the phone and now introduce a new app is pretty much impossible not to mention some people just don’t want to hassle with using multiple messaging apps.
Funny how you only quoted half of my post. A simple google search will show you definite security issues with RCS that Apple might not want to get involved with.
I think it is pretty commonly understood to most users (that care about security) that the blue bubble means you are encrypted via apple protocols and the green means it is open.
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Do 89 year old grandfathers that can barely work the phone care about higher resolution photos and cross platform emoji reactions?
All these people crying about encryption forget one important problem with Apple's current offering: It doesn't "just work".
Imessage doesn't work reliably when transitioning between LTE and WiFi. Communications have to be reliable before we start worrying about encryption. This is before we even get into the problems caused by a lack of RCS support.
But even if it really was an issue, supporting RCS doesn't change the functionality of Imessage at all; it's an entirely separate protocol.
Imessage doesn't work reliably when transitioning between LTE and WiFi. Communications have to be reliable before we start worrying about encryption. This is before we even get into the problems caused by a lack of RCS support.
But even if it really was an issue, supporting RCS doesn't change the functionality of Imessage at all; it's an entirely separate protocol.
I don't understand this. From a network communication point of view, it doesn't matter. Can you give an example?