Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year agoGoogle wants Apple to use Google’s proprietary extension of RCS, which runs on Google’s own servers as is precisely as open as iMessage. Effectively nobody uses the industry-standard version of it.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where’s the source for that? Last I read, Google was using the GSMA Universal RCS profile
Google does own and run the Jibe platform as an RCS vendor, but Apple doesn’t need to use it. They can go with a different vendor or run their own RCS servers just as easily
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
Google's astroturf campaign for "RCS" promotes encrypted messages but RCS has no support for this. Google wants to force people to use its proprietary extension, which runs exclusively on Google's servers.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And absolutely nothing is stopping Apple from rolling its own RCS extensions that apps can support as well
MDZA@feddit.uk 1 year ago
So what’s the idea here? Apple rolls out another extended version of RCS that’s proprietary as well?