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Google Urges Apple Not to 'Drop the Ball' on Fixing Messaging in New Billboard Pushing RCS

DominikHoffmann said:
Really? There is nothing else keeping you with iOS?
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I'm clearly an Apple enthusiast and deeply entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, but I have been severely underwhelmed with the last several iOS and iPhone releases. It has become more apparent to me in the past year when work issued me an iPhone 11. I now use an 11 and 13P side by side. The things I notice that are better on the 13P: pro-motion, camera, and 5G. Those are not insignificant but they are all also available on a Pixel... and I prefer the camera on a Pixel.
 
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I’m not a Google fan, but c’mon people… A modern cross-platform messaging system would benefit all users and is long overdue. It just needs both major OS makers to lay down arms long enough to collaborate on it. One of those companies is at least trying, and it ain’t Apple!
 
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Google should pay Apple to adopt RCS, but I don't think they can afford what adopting RCS would truly cost Apple in the long run. Apple would be better off making an iMessage app for Android rather than adopting RCS. 90% of teenagers in the US use iPhone and iMessage is a big part of that. If RCS is basically iMessage compatibility for Android then why would Apple want to implement it when they can keep using SMS/MMS for free for Android compatibility?
 
Also, curious wording in the greeting:

"Hey Apple (the company), it's Android (the competitor's product)"

Why not "Hey Apple, it's Alphabet" or "Hey iOS, it's Android"

Alphabet's message reads like a message designed to manipulate public opinion.
 
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DonutHands said:
I voice call people using their phone numbers. I'd really like to be able to message them using that same number and have nearly the same feature set no matter what phone they chose to use.
RCS would make this a much better experience.



Nope, this is just plain incorrect.
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20 years from now the truth will be revealed.
 
Why don’t Google pay Apple 1 cent per message to license iMessage instead? That sure is better than RCS.
 
NightFlight said:
Good enough doesn't mean good. A better user experience is a better user experience, period. Run a poll? Why would I care about what a bunch of rabid Apple Fanboys care about something that their company doesn't care about? This forum is an echo chamber for the most part. Anything Google here is automatically crap.

Moving the goalposts? Overseas doesn't matter or something? 70% is 70%.
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Because here is where the hardcore fans congregate. If we don't care, do you really think that average consumer cares? :D

Google is trying their best to drum up support but absolutely no-one cares that's why they keep spending money on ads hoping something sticks and goes viral.

Nobody wants Apple wasting resources on a feature only a handful of rabid Google fans here care about. Especially when 70% of them are overseas and no-one is using RCS to text with to begin with. :p:p:cool:
 
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Anyone else remember when Steve Jobs announced FaceTime, and IIRC iMessage, he said on stage that it would be open sourced so that other companies could use it as well.

And then sadly he passed away and it became a proprietary thing… :(
 
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Black Magic said:
Google is trying their best to drum up support but absolutely no-one cares that's why they keep spending money on ads hoping something sticks and goes viral.
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No one cares. You're quite right there. The three big operators here in NZ trialled RCS back in 2016, including with an iOS app, and it went absolutely nowhere. Today none of the three support RCS at all.

If people really want RCS today, and their provider supports it, then they'll install an app for it. There's no need to build it right into the OS.
 
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Quick question... is RCS being used right now?

We know Apple phones don't use it... but do all Android phones use it?

Are people using it and they don't even know? Or do you have to use a special RCS app?

I also hear that it's up to the carriers to support it... and not all carriers do. It doesn't sound like it's fully ready yet.
 
Michael Scrip said:
It doesn't sound like it's fully ready yet.
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And it never has been. When researching my post above I found a thread from 2019 where someone said "if it had come along 5 or 6 years ago then it would be a great success, but now it's too little, too late". Someone else replied with "it DID come along 5 or 6 years ago, and it completely flopped".
 
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Apple is doomed, once again its proprietary ship is sinking.

EUs DMA mandates all messengers to be compatible. So what to do, Apple?

There is a good chance that Apple will announce RCS compatibility on WWDC 2023.

Apple, your strategy (or Tims strategy) fails once again.
 
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I want Apple to give me the option to change the bubble color. It's annoying to read the white text on green.
 
AndiG said:
Apple is doomed, once again its proprietary ship is thinking.

EUs DMA mandates all messengers to be compatible. So what to do, Apple?

There is a good chance that Apple will announce RCS compatibility on WWDC 2023.

Apple, your strategy (or Tims strategy) fails once again.
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My iPhone came with this app called "Messages"

It allows me to send a message to any phone in the world if I know their phone number.

So it seems that Apple already has a compatible messaging app.

:p
 
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topdrawer said:
hey google, fix the "would you like to switch to chrome" pop up and shut the eff up.
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I keep seeing the sign into google pop-up. Like all the time on tons of websites. It pisses me off. I mean, if I’m not signed in, how do they know I even have a google account. Very suspicious.
 
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mebehere said:
I keep seeing the sign into google pop-up. Like all the time on tons of websites. It pisses me off. I mean, if I’m not signed in, how do they know I even have a google account. Very suspicious.
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Most likely Google is telling them by querying the cookies stored in your browser.
 
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