Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhere’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?
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It might be proprietary, but at least any messaging app Android, iOS or some future third competitor will be able to implement it.
Unlike iMessage which is both proprietary and closed off from third party use