Thank fuck. As an iPhone user it not playing well with RCS made texting worse for me because most of the people I know have Androids. iMessage was actually a negative for me so this is great news.
I was downvoted when I claimed it’s a good thing and we should push apple to do this, so why is everyone happy now?
Brilliant news, about time! 🙌
damn i just switched from android to iphone
Never a better time to switch back to Android :)
This is coming the soonest at the end of next year, so no rush.
This is coming the soonest at the end of next year, so no rush.
Will this include rcs group chats?
Orange text bubbles for rcs lol
The article says it will be green like SMS/MMS was, and that RCS will replace SMS/MMS.
Yeah that was tongue in cheek :)
Tone hard to convey on Reddit.
In Europe we dont care android user or iphone user everyone using mostly whatsapp
I think one used iMessage like 3 times. Everyone uses whatsapp 🤷♂️
Every country other than the US uses some third party app for communication, mostly Whatsapp. Don’t know why the obsession with iMessage is in the US.
Would this mean free messaging to Android users when connected to WiFi?
Good, now I can go back to Samsung
It’s a good move to prevent the EU from forcing them to degrade iMessage. But it’s crap that they are doing it at all. Google in every way is inferior and bowing down to adopt their “standard” is BS. iMessage is best. Hopefully it stays that way.
You are not loosing iMessage. Should read the article before writing nonsense
Cross platform messengers went far from those standards years ago, this is why pretty much everybody besides US folks use them and nobody cares about what phone you have.
Wow, Apple finally playing nice with other phones is something I thought we’d never see
Main bits…
“But at the same time, iMessage isn’t going anywhere. It will continue to be the messaging platform used for all communication between iPhone users. RCS will simply supplant SMS and MMS and exist separately from iMessage when available. SMS and MMS will also continue to be available as a fallback when needed, Apple says. This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Instead, it’s the company adopting RCS separately from iMessage.“
Looking forward to better attitude control
Damn I might go return my iPhone 15 I just bought a couple days ago lol. Go back to my paid off iPhone 13 until I can get a new android.
Great. So RCS spam is going to be a new feature?