Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The difference is, you can choose not to use Googles RCS extension and opt for the Universal Profile standard instead and it will interop with people on other RCS profiles, even Googles, just fine.

      iMessage doesn’t do any of that, your choice is iMessage with other Apple users or a 30+ year old protocol. That’s it.

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      • MDZA@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Except that’s not what happened in reality before Google started rolling out their version of RCS.

        The carriers implemented their own versions that didn’t weren’t interoperable with each other, and that was for the ones that even bothered with it at all.

        And now they have even less incentive to try.

        RCS is nice in theory, but no one is serious about implementing the universal profile.

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