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.

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.

  • Praise IdlenessEnglish
    17•9 months ago

    Yeah fuck apple but seriously, RCS is fucking stupid. We have so many nice open protocols and RCS is the best we can get?

    • @crab@monero.townEnglish
      10•9 months ago

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

      • Instrument_Data
        1•9 months ago

        Everything is better than SMS.
        And everything except SMS is better than RCS.

        Let me use a fucking messaging app, I’ll just need any internet connection and it will works and it get constantly updated.

        RCS is just SMS2

        • @crab@monero.townEnglish
          6•9 months 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.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        14•9 months 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.

      • @crab@monero.townEnglish
        12•9 months ago

        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.