Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

• Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’ve avoided my question. What is the business driver for Apple to do this?

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  • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple can do whatever it wants. Currently they want to keep a barrier between Android and Apple users as a strategy for driving iphone sales.

    A reason could be just to create a better experience for its users. Currently Apple to Android messages are SMS and MMS, which are unencrypted. Apple could ensure the security of its users’ messages by implementing RCS, which has E2E encryption.

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    • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But that doesn’t make them money. In fact by making it easier for Apple customers inside the walled garden to switch away, it’ll cost them money.

      There’s no way they do it without regulation.

      It drives me nuts that I can’t type an iMessage from my PC (Windows phone app is garbage) so I get the frustration.

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