It was china or Japan that forced Apple to implement RCS because it’s law there that says if you make a 5g mobile you must include RCS
which is pretty damn sad that apple needed government intervention to force them to improve communication between androids and iPhones
Which is annoying on both ends to me. While I welcome the feature, I also don't believe the government should be forcing companies to implement things on their products. People have the choice not to purchase if they want a phone with RCS.
I never said they couldn't, I said they shouldn't.
where are you getting your info from most carriers that did have it native dumped it because to use google's version or didn't you bother to research that nope probably didn'tWhere are you getting your info from, because it would be faster to list telecoms that DON’T support it than those that do.
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Why? A government is supposed to represent the people they are governing even though some people might not realize a law is for their benefit.
Business are not your friends. Businesses are in the business of making..... money.
Left to business, this would be our reality and that's just a few.
Which country / carrier billed RCS messages? Or did you accidentally type RCS but wanted to say SMS/MMS?
I believe that RCS messages were kind of treated like MMS messages since they weren't sent through an app like WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE or even Facebook Messenger. Just the user base for WhatsApp is huge in many parts of the world, because it is a truly cellphone operating system agnostic app.
they are only unlimited in Europe if you have a plan that gives you unlimited, mms messages are not included in sms allowances, they will charge you for them.
Yes and no. Pretty much all RCS messages go through the Google Jibe server, however there are a few carriers that still provide their own RCS backend. I believe in the US however, pretty much all carriers have or will soon contract Google Jibe to handle the backend. It's just easier and cheaper to pay them to do it. Since Apple will likely just have the carriers backend RCS much like they handle SMS/MMS now, Google Jibe will be handling most of it even if Apple is not directly working with them. A carrier could in theory charge per message even if they used Jibe because it's just contracted to handle messages for them, but I highly doubt it.
And Vodafone already shutdown MMS last year. Telefonica and Telekom will do the same and Apple supporting RCS will probably also a reason to shutdown it down. MMS was due to the high prices never really a thing in Germany. And a reason why WhatsApp is so successful in Germany.
The carriers will be supporting the backend just like they do SMS/MMS. Since most of them are using Jibe instead of their own servers or are planning to in the future it should work pretty well at least in the USA. I'm not sure how it'll all work in other parts of the world. Since Apple is using the universal profile E2EE won't be a feature when iPhones are messaging Android, however it's still much more secure than SMS.
Nope. I think we should use whatever phone you want.
Yes. If I had a wonderful, loyal friend for many years and they went out and bought an Android phone that friendship would be over. Even if they tried so hard to be nice and do everything I'd be mean and bully until they felt destroyed and stopped talking to me. Loyalty to corporations must come first. /s
The friendship would not be over lol. I just wouldn’t text them as much lol.
That must create a very stressful situation with your mom, but I'm glad you still talk to her. People can do what they want, but I just don't get hung up on any of this and communicate with those I care about or like no matter what phone they use.
Love the color actually. My hair is green for pride!
