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Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang(www.theverge.com)

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themurphy@lemmy.ml
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No, but that doesn’t make it good.

The whole world except a minority moved away from SMS a long time ago.

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GingeyBook@lemm.ee
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That’s great that the rest of the world moved on. That doesn’t mean that those of us in locations that haven’t moved on have to use the most inferior version of messaging.

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lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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The only people who didn’t move on are Americans.

Nobody else uses SMS for anything else than service messages. Nobody cares about “bubble Color” in Europe, Asia or Africa

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themurphy@lemmy.ml
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I didn’t say that, but it might explain why Apple didn’t say much. I’m just keeping the discussion to the thread.

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bobo@lemmy.world
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They’ve moved on to specific platforms, not open standards. Ultimately, that’s not a good thing. Like when Twitter effectively replaced RSS for a lot of use cases.

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Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works
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I fucking love SMS.

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themurphy@lemmy.ml
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Might be a 10thDentist take, but I could be surprised.

It’s reliable in specific use cases, I’ll give it that.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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Yes toward corporations who sell your data. Great move, big brains

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iarigby@lemmy.world
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Yeah because ISP’s are not giant corporations

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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Great point. I’m sure they’re decrypting my rcs messages somehow and selling that data. And I’m sure your response here has nothing to do with riding apple wang

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stangel@lemmy.world
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Google Messages uses end-to-end encryption by default, for RCS.

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