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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

They won’t do E2EE until it’s part of the standard. That is being worked on.

Google only has it because they have an extremely proprietary, non-standard RCS implementation.

And yeah the EU isn’t going to force anything on iMessage because it’s literally irrelevant outside of the US. I don’t know anybody who seriously uses iMessage tbh, despite like 40% of people here using iPhones.

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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Funny how many people wanted RCS on iOS in order to be compatible with Android, while large parts of Google’s implementation of RCS in Android is proprietary as well.

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- cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  While Google should open source it, it’s important to note that Google never actually wanted to run or implement RCS. It was supposed to be the carriers, but they never did and even Google spent years pushing them to get off their ass and they still didn’t. It was years before Google finally went “Fine, I’ll just fucking do it myself”
  
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- TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Is it not proprietary due to carriers being extremely fussy?
  
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JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Yeah everyone uses WhatsApp when I travel to other countries.

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- chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  WhatsApp (EU/LatAm), WeChat (China), Kakao Talk (Korea), Line (Japan/Taiwan) are the main ones I’ve encountered. I think Telegram is used more in Russosphere and Signal has a footing in some niche circles as well.
  
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  - TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    India is a huge market for WhatsApp
    
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  - amanda@aggregatet.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Sweden’s mostly on Meta Messenger
    
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