Comment on Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 months agoBecause most people don’t really understand the specifics of what they are railing against and/or arguing for. They just read “big bad Apple is being eViL” and get on the complaint train without really understanding what they are advocating for.
undnocheiner@feddit.de 11 months ago
You used a lot of words, just too say that you don’t know what you are talking about.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well then go on, why am I wrong? Or do you just not like my opinion and are grasping at straws to make you feel better?
pewnit@lemmings.world 11 months ago
RCS is an open standard created by GSMA. That’s why you’re wrong.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Googles implementation of the RCS standard has extra things not included in the base standard. The encryption for example is something Google added that is not part of the standard.
Additionally, Google does not allow any other implementation of RCS to talk to their jibe servers to pass messages without them explicitly approving it.
So what Google has functionally created is a proprietary messaging service built on top of an open standard. This is what most people miss about all of the coverage of Google pushing for RCS.