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Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ (www.bostonherald.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

They haven't implemented RCS because it's a dumpster fire with no redeeming qualities.

"RCS" only works on Android because Google did a bunch of their own shit outside the spec to make it remotely functional. They're trying to use legislature to bully their way into controlling the standard by forcing Apple to use it.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

Yup, and pretending otherwise is just head burying

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Well, it partialy works, but it just uses google's servers and there isn't any alternative apps for it.

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago

Google Messages is to RCS what WhatsApp is to XMPP.

And Apple is going to be no different as they deal with Google and plug into their system.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -1 points 7 months ago

I'm so surprised by the way this has gone in the US. The weird ass blend of SMS and messaging iMessage uses for no reason and the fact that it's sorta-kinda platform exclusive but not really is just an absolute mess of dumb engineering.

The fact that RCS is even part of this conversation seems so weird. Surely the real answer is for iMessage to just... have an Android port that works like the iOS port, right? That's how every other messaging app does it. I mean, sure, over here in Androidland where everybody uses Whatsapp (which has its own issues), RCS is a thing. If you open your text messaging app for some reason there is a Google prompt to switch it to RCS as a one-time optional choice. I just... never bothered. Because who the hell uses either SMS or RCS anyway?

Would I switch to iMessage if there was an Android port? No. Because everybody I've ever known with an iPhone uses Whatsapp, so that'd be as useful as switching to carrier pigeons. But it's worth pointing out that the only reason the EU hasn't forced interoperability for iMessage is exactly that. If it hadn't already lost the messenger app wars in Europe they would have been forced to sort this out one way or another.