Literally no one cares about RCS.
Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Welcome to the party apple, we see you’re purposefully wayyy late yet again.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 week ago
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 1 week ago
Not entirely true… the American Android users care about it; Apple users will still default to the superior iMessage as opposed to the inconsistent carrier dependant RCS; rest of the world will use geo-preferred third party messaging app that also offer consistent experience between carriers.
“Buy your mom an iPhone” people.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 week ago
Not entirely true… the American Android users care about it;
Then I guess it’s nice for both of them that iOS will support RCS.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 1 week ago
yoshisaur@lemm.ee 1 week ago
aww. does apple being forced to allow the newest messaging standard hurt you?
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 1 week ago
No, they’re mostly correct; basically no one except Android users in the USA cares. Everywhere else has it figured out with third party messaging platforms that’s geographically favored, and Apple users in USA will continue to use the superior iMessage protocol with each other. Only the Android users in USA are left out from sending/receiving messaging, so they’re salivating over the update like it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
RCS is janky, inconsistent, and carrier dependent. Can’t wait for Android users in the USA to join the better rest of the world. Until GSM consortium mandates end to end encryption and force all carriers to adopt certain version of consistent minimum, RCS is and will continue to be a garbage inferior protocol that should be avoided like the plague.
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 1 week ago
Doesn’t matter either way because everyone uses WhatsApp anyway.
RCS will never be able to compete with either because it’s a GSMA standard. Apple or Meta can think of a cool new feature, add it to their client and roll it out to all their users with the next update.
If they want to add a new feature to RCS, the GSMA (An organization with over 1500 members) will have to for a committee, they can then talk about their conflicting interestes for a few years before writing down a new version of the standard, then dozens of clients and servers at hundreds of different operators need to be upgraded before everyone can use the new feature. Due to this bullshit RCS will never be able to keep up.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
WhatsApp is big outside the U.S. inside the U.S., I don’t know a single person who uses it.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Honestly, where I operate, almost nobody uses (outgoing) sms/mms - unless their phone has actual physical buttons on it. It’s all iMessage for those who can or something like Viber for those who can’t. I can’t see why anybody would take a step backwards to RCS when it offered nothing that we haven’t already been doing for years - and it’s apparently network dependant.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They do in the US.
But on a global scale, you’re right.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
None of my android friends have RCS on their phone, but my iPhone does.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s more than likely that every single one of your Android friends have RCS on their phones.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I care, I can finally wifi text iPhone users who won’t use signal or even discord
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Especially not discord you mean.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Any of my comms through these means have no security implications anyway. They would have gone through unencrypted sms before this, so idrc if discord or the feds would know my very limited plans with friends and family. I just care that my already unencrypted messages won’t take multiple hours to go through soon
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I do not use any google products or services and would prefer not to have any of their shit on my phone, but at least I can send decent videos and pics to my friends who refuse to download signal now
PMmeYourPenis@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not only do they have RCS, but they finally got USB-C across the iPhone 16 lineup!
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Forced by EU! Thanks again, EU.
foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Thanks EU for chat control 😁
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 week ago
That didn’t pass as far as I am aware.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 1 week ago
It was not an EU thing, it was a China thing.
It’s quite obvious as well looking back at it; if course China will mandate one of the weakest protocol with no end to end encryption.
Avoid RCS like the plague and use something more secure!
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I was talking about usb-c, and I don’t care about RCS, but it is still better in everyway than SMS.
anas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I hate the timing of that EU decision, because we’ll never know if Apple did the switch because of it, or because 10 years had passed since they promised 10 years of Lightning anyway.
baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 1 week ago
I cannot find anything related to “the promised 10 years of lightening”. Do you min providing a source?
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Someone doesn’t read articles
Matt@lemdro.id 1 week ago
They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Yet apple being apple both the 15 and 16 non pro models are arbitrarily limited to USB 2.0
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I can’t remember the last time I connected my phone to my computer via USB to transfer files. I bet the vast majority are the same.