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Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 4 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] designatedhacker@lemm.ee 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They're also adding a lot more incompatible text formatting and shit to keep Android incomplete with their real chat protocol. Gotta keep those teens bullying Android users. Also E2E encryption would be nice, but the EU didn't force them to do that.

Still great because MMS is garbage and ruins photo and video quality.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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. Tbh, Google should've open sourced this and had it as part of the RCS standard, but they didn't.

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.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months 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"

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Is it not proprietary due to carriers being extremely fussy?

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah everyone uses WhatsApp when I travel to other countries.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

India is a huge market for WhatsApp

[–] amanda@aggregatet.org 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sweden’s mostly on Meta Messenger. WhatsApp is the foreign exchange student protocol.

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago

I use Beeper because I can’t stand all these fucking apps. Preferably everyone would switch to Signal but that won’t happen.