I’m just sitting here frustrated because I’m wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google’s RCS really doesn’t look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they don’t even make RCS available for 3rd party apps to use either.
Since when is rcs dead? More and more of the people I use texting with come “online” all the time.
Weird takes.
Bad take. The problem isn’t RCS, it’s Apple.
I think it’s complex and the problem have been many things. When Apple pitched an open version of iMessage to the carriers long ago they refused because the didn’t like the E2EE. They were surprised when Apple later introduced a proprietary version (and subsequently discovered it was a competitive advantage).
Now there’s a Client-server encrypted version of RCS in GSMA but the E2EE version is Google’s and running on Google’s service. It was only recently that two carriers in the US agreed to use Google’s messaging app for interoperability but is E2EE in GSMA?
Interoperability have been a problem as at one point carriers weren’t even interoperable while using Universal Profile (I think they are now). Apple surely wont use it unless forced (it makes business sense not to) but between GSMA Universal Profile (which Apple would have to use) and Google’s much better version based on the Signal protocol the current situation is also a mess.
The sooner everyone accepts that AndroidPolice has turned into an Apple propaganda and sponsored content website, the sooner we can choose another website for Android News.
They’ve been terrible for years, I switched to 9to5Google a long time ago
they mainly use iOS
Well that’s not a RCS problem, is it?
it’s not interested, and if you want to send your mom high-res videos, you’re better off buying her — or yourself — an iPhone
The article is basically repeating “fuck standardisation because a company is not playing fair, so let’s give them more money”
RCS is pretty much implemented by all the major EU carriers.
We still use WhatsApp and Telegram though. We are not as backward as the US folks in that regards.
What kind of crap article is this? It’s paragraphs and paragraphs of words saying that we should just accept the previous status-quo of a bajillion different apps. The headline might as well be “RCS sucks, just give up.” which is such a defeatist way to say absolutely nothing.
