RCS version 1 was finalized, and now, the children born then are entering highschool. That was long before Google even started developing their failed messaging apps. To be honest the biggest villian in all of this is the carriers who took so long to allow it on their networks... But now that role has fallen to Apple.
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Tim Cook Shoots Down Idea of iOS Adopting RCS Messages: 'Buy Your Mom an iPhone'
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Regulations may force Apple to implement RCS in the near future.
Not particularly this protocol but text messaging apps will be required to talk to each other starting next year so a WhatsApp user could be able to text someone on iMessage etc
There was no need for the Google search as certain things have been out in the open for quite a while now if you are able "to see" them.
From the "drunken sailor language" of Victoria Nuland: "F**k the EU." to the academic style of the Henry Kissinger: "Europe is no longer the heart of the Western civilization it once was." I would say that the writing was on the wall for some time now. Angela Merkel did her best by trying to maneuver in order to save the day but she is gone now. I am sure that the Brexit also took place with this understanding in mind.
I wouldn't either. I'm not going to go digging through 3 or 4 different messaging apps because 3 or 4 friends/family members use WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram. All my friends/family members use the stock messaging app whether they're iPhone or Android, so I have one place to go when I want to check messages. I've had friends over the years who wanted me to download some janky messaging app or walkie-talkie app they were using, and I just blew them off.
It really isn’t a big deal. My husband and dad insist on using Samsung phones. I just message them using WhatsApp. My work group is on WhatsApp. It really isn’t a big deal.
RCS is idiotic. do you really want to tie yourself to a carrier?
hey! let me face time this RCS guy. oh wait, HIS CARRIER won't support video calls. absolutely stupid.
if you thought green bubbles and blue bubbles was confusing the first time, just wait until you see red bubbles.
hey! let me face time this RCS guy. oh wait, HIS CARRIER won't support video calls. absolutely stupid.
if you thought green bubbles and blue bubbles was confusing the first time, just wait until you see red bubbles.
its barely supported anywhere, even if implemented it would be worthless on any carrier that does not support it
My understanding is Verizon has abandoned their Message+ app in favor of just using Google's Messages app with the RCS universal profile.
Um yes they can, certainly they can insist on a level on interoperability whether that is RCS or not
Yes it is supposed to be a joke, in the context of Tim’s comments.
If anyone, first, the carriers would need to push THEIR greed aside. They were the ones that created SMS/MMS, they were the ones that created the interoperability among ALL carriers and all phones in the world (even on systems that didn’t natively support SMS like CDMA). If any more advanced solution is coming, it’ll be coming from them.
Any solution not taking the carriers into account will be “just another app” to download, as Google has shown with Google RCS.
Because Google has said they’re the answer. On Android, most users would still need to download a client app to use it, just like with WhatsApp, Signal, etc.
And, after replacing SMS/MMS, dumb phones, which can’t run apps, just no longer have any way to receive text messages? At this point, that’s cutting off a LOOOOOOOOT of people just for a few folks in the US to get… read receipts?
You should do some reading up on RCS. The GSMA that created it has given up on it. If there IS eventually an interoperable solution, it won’t be RCS. (Although there won’t be an interoperable solution because, for the vast majority of phone users, SMS/MMS is sufficient)
You mean stop cheerleading the wrong company and, instead, cheerlead the company YOU’RE cheerleading? Righty-o!
Both RCS and iMessage found away to put some form of layer upon SMS/MMS… not necessarily replacing it. But provides users modern features compared to SMS/MMS. All I’m suggesting is… combining RCS and iMessage in some fashion, not sure how that would be implemented. But carriers can do what they will with SMS/MMS (haven’t sent a SMS/MMS in years)… but the best solution is for Google and Apple work together to find a common ground, which I admit will not happen.
Because depending on carriers to do some messaging platform would be a bogus, Google and Apple seems as if they are willing to find a better way for users to communicate. Carriers could care less.
So, if it doesn’t have to be RCS, might I interest you in being a Telegram or Signal salesman? Or perhaps, WhatsApp? Or, do you ONLY want to be a Google salesman? Best thing about these other products is, you don’t even have to wait for them to have wide usage around the world, they’re ALREADY there!
And, for folks outside the US, you don’t even have to be a salesman because they’re already using them!Yeah, especially with carriers TOTALLY not interested at all, you’re not going to find carriers around the world as eager to cede control to Google (as the US ones were) for what is a VERY lucrative business for them.
Well, not for dumb phone users. Which is one reason for the strength of SMS it works for pretty much everybody. Give someone a number and they can get a text message regardless of device. And if you mean a platform agnostic standard for smartphone users, interestingly enough, that’s what WhatsApp is doing, too! And Signal! And Telegram!
THIS! SMS didn’t happen because governments said “LET US MAKE THIS THING HAPPEN!”, it was a side feature in GSM messaging that a few people figured out, GSM carriers realized they could make that a FEATURE of their networks that set them apart (and that they could charge for) and, as a result, non-GSM networks that didn’t even have built-in support for the feature kludged it in so that GSM networks wouldn’t have that advantage, and there you have it. A worldwide communications standard that pretty much any cellular phone can use.
And, when enough customers wanted better, here comes MMS, also widely supported by carriers around the world. And that defines why it remains SMS/MMS to this day. There’s not enough customers interested in anything better.
“Spiritual” in that it’s dead and the GSMA doesn’t even post about it on thier official website anymore.
Call ‘em? Post on their social media? Send them an email? Use a search engine and you can find myriad ways to get a message to someone with a different brand of phone. It’s a problem that’s been solved myriad numbers of ways.
No, it’s not nonsense. It’s not RCS because Google doesn’t call it RCS, T-mobile doesn’t call it RCS, they all refer to it as “Google RCS” which is NOT the same as the RCS standard that has been all but forgotten by the GSMA that proposed it.