I've traveled a lot internationally and SMS is a US/Australia phenomenon, otherwise it's dead. Coincidentally those countries have a very high iOS market share, so it's actually iMessage in most cases, which makes the traditional SMS even more dead.
A profile that hasn’t been updated since 2020. That’s forever in internet time. ALLLLmost like they’ve entirely given up on improving/promoting the tech.
I do always enjoy reading about messaging around the world.
The best chance anyone really has at making RCS a thing lies in your last sentence. Currently, the bulk of the money carriers make from SMS are from some business application to the customer (the carriers don’t give them an ‘unlimited’ plan ) If anyone can get carriers to implement RCS, it’s those businesses driving them to implement it because they want to provide read receipts, response notifications, and send larger files to their customers.
2 years (and 3 months) isn't "forever" in Internet time. Besides, the quality of a specification isn't measured by how often it is updated.
It is, though, because those updates indicate a level of maintenance that’s required for anything today. That would be like Microsoft not having released ANY updates to Windows since October 2020.
You're missing the fact that the most popular desktop OS is not, in fact, the same as a pdf document describing a specification
You’re missing the fact that RCS is a dead technology?
Actually, if we think about it critically, wouldn‘t you think that the spec should be updated to maybe provision E2EE as an optional feature if they are serious about it? Service providers can monetise E2EE to claw back their investment don’t you think? At least it will motivate service providers to hop on.
Yes, moving the goalposts from:
The grass is begging to be touched.
This means capital investment and testing, as opposed to just using standards based solution. You seriously think that any service provider will do it, when almost none are rolling out RCS as per GSMA specifications?
None are rolling out their own RCS implementation, but technically they are using an RCS implementation, namely Google's. However, nothing's stopping someone from implementing their own.
RCS is dead. Google RCS, which is the trash the GSMA threw out and forgot about with non-GSMA approved additions (non-GSMA because the GSMA, you see, haven’t made any formal additions/updates in years) is what you may be referring to. And still, FAR fewer messages than WhatsApp (that won’t change) and SMS (that, too, won’t change) and several other messaging applications.
You guys are too stuck up about Google RCS.
It’s literally meant to be a carrier technology, exactly like SMS and MMS. A few carriers around the world have adopted it, nowhere near even half. Google’s not a carrier. They’re, at best, an MVNO (as GoogleFi, operating over T-mobile and U.S. Cellular networks) and as an MVNO, they use those carrier’s SMS networks, as one would expect. They’re NOT using those carrier’s RCS networks as they don’t exist. T-mobile uses Google RCS, not RCS.
How exactly did Apple lose the dominance fight int he ultra-portable OS space? Would love to hear your justification for that statement. Sure, there are more Android devices, but what has Apple lost? Certainly not profit. Isn't that really the measure to look at? People don't pay for Android because it is inconsistent and fractured. So vendors have to add their own bloatware to a phone or tablet to differentiate it from everyone else's bland device. Apple on the other hand makes billions of dollars EVERY YEAR by selling devices that offer a great user experience with far better security than Android and some level of future-proofing. So in the dominance category, I say Apple is the real winner.
The numbers related to ultra-portables always exclude iPads, which are the ultimate ultra-portable. If those numbers were included, Apple’s running away with that market. All together, they sell more than Apple, but, individually, Apple ships more iPads than anyone else sells laptops.
Erm, sweetie, nope... all those closed siloes are awful. I ignore iMessage as I know virtually noone that has iPhone and uses it... I do all my Chatting on Telegram/Whatsapp 🤷♂️
