Submitted 11 months ago by kae@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.
Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.
That means google is going to open the rcs api up to other devs soon too…right? Right??
It says in the artical they plan to use rcs the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. So I assume they won’t be using Google version. Unless I’m misunderstanding it.
This is great but surprising news. Hopefully the implementation is actually good
I imagine they’ll probably keep the blue bubbles and some features exclusive to iMessage users, but this is still great news.
I wonder if this will encourage Google to allow Fi users to have RCS while texting from PC…
What do you guys think is going to happen with like an open RCS standard? RCS is only available on Google messages.
Yep, they’ll definitely stick to the blue green system that already exists, threads with greens will just be improved from what they were/currently are
They're going to implement the open standard ... which isn't what most Android users are actually using. Does Google's Messages app gracefully transition to the RCS standard if that's what the other person is using?
No idea but, I suspect that Apple will have some negotiating power here, hopefully weakening Google’s control and making it mostly open
Still better than WhatsApp, but i would bet this will haunt us for many more years. I couldn’t convince others to use any alternative messenger to WhatsApp, unfortunately. It is easy too pupillary here
There’salways going to be a group of plebs sucking on corporate balls. Think of this as the digital version of people buying some slave trade Nikes because they are super cool.
I finally deleted my WhatsApp account and it feels good to not have any Meta tentacles on my device.
Fucking thank you. I’m so sick of not having typing indicators and read receipts with my parents lmao.
Until we get an API for RCS on Android as well as FOSS implementations of RCS, I will happily continue using Signal. Even after RCS gets rolled out, Signal will probably still be a better option, because it shares as little metadata as possible and as much of it as possible is end-to-end encrypted.
Alright so who do you think implements it first: Google Voice or Apple?
Only read? Haha
Apple relies too much on lock-in effect to actually offer that - instead of taking $5/month and having to develop and maintain such interoperability they'd really rather you just get on their platform instead.
I wonder if this comes due to the EU
RCS is a universal standard.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing phone in shambles.
13617@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We need to thank the nothing phone for this. They’re only responding like this after severe market pressure. Thank you Nothint
kirklennon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Do you honestly think Apple cares about Nothing in any capacity? They are irrelevant and apply zero market pressure on Apple.
Corgana@startrek.website 11 months ago
Beeper too. They got a lot of buzz a while back for a similar feature.