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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Google and company can go fuck themselves on this one, and I’m usually the first one to bash on Apple for selling overpriced status symbols.

I’m frankly amazed at how much importance Google gives iMessage, when it’s not the number 1 messaging app anywhere in the world. Hell, even if you assume Apple halved its report of monthly active users in Europe, that’s 90 million people in Europe. Significant, but less than 25% of the total population of the EU

Outside USA and Canada, you’ll be hard pressed to find people who give a damn about iMessage, because most are using a different, cross compatible app anyway, like Whatsapp or Telegram, even across most European countries.

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Builtin@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Why would you be against standardizing messaging over the net? How is that a bad thing?

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- ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Because those aren’t internet messages, RCS is supposed to supersede SMS and MMS, which is how Google whatever (hangouts? talk? messages?) sends messages to iPhone numbers. Meanwhile, apple-apple communication via iMessage is done via internet
  
  Because the standard is mostly controlled by Google and Samsung, Apple’s biggest rivals in the mobile space
  
  Because Google has been completely anal about being easily spotted in iPhone conversations for quite a while. It is pretty obvious that this has nothing to do with using better standards. AFAIK, even phones that can use RCS have it turned off by default.
  
  Because anyone with an internet connection already has access to several widely used apps that do much more than RCS does
  
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mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
SMS would basically be dead if Apple adopted RCS, that’s why it’s important.

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- Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Honest question, should sms die because it’s being a paid for service or for the insecurity or both or more?
  
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  - mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’ll probably always stay as a fallback, but because it’s an incredibly outdated protocol and lived far past it’s age.
    
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  - Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sms is a 20+y old standard. Could just be sending smoke messages, it would be equally secure and feature rich…
    
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someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Because apparently you get very annoying workarounds from the incompatibility.

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