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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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