Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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      1 year ago

      Never looked into it, what’s so bad about RCS besides it being proprietary? Way better than SMS in my experience.

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          1 year ago

          Then everyone needs to download and make an account on said app, they already exist and none are unanimous.

          Everyone has a phone number that gets used for auth and other things. If that system doesn’t change then RCS is way better.

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        1 year ago

        Confidently incorrect but ok.

        The whole point of RCS is that it’s a protocol so there demonstrably would be other apps. It’s like saying there’s only one app for SMS, it isn’t true.

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        RCS seems to be pretty openly licensed out to other OEMs, definitely a lot better than iMessage.

        It’s still proprietary though, a far cry from something like Matrix.