Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year agoGoogle'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
MDZA@feddit.uk 1 year ago
And yet, no developer other than Samsung has been granted access to Google’s version of RCS.
I’d love to see a truly standard, rich, secure messaging service, but I’m not convinced what Google is doing here is any better than Apple.