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Welcome to the party apple, we see you’re purposefully wayyy late yet again.
Not only do they have RCS, but they finally got USB-C across the iPhone 16 lineup!
Forced by EU! Thanks again, EU.
I hate the timing of that EU decision, because we’ll never know if Apple did the switch because of it, or because 10 years had passed since they promised 10 years of Lightning anyway.
I cannot find anything related to “the promised 10 years of lightening”. Do you min providing a source?
Might not be true, I read it back when they first announced USB-C, and I can’t find anything about it right now.
Someone doesn’t read articles
You aren’t wrong, I just read the headline and the comments. However, my comment isn’t about anything in this article.
Oh yeah i know, I’m talking about articles in general. When the EU gave Apple the command to either comply or pack up, they initially expressed disdain before eventually succumbing.
Thanks EU for chat control 😁
That didn’t pass as far as I am aware.
No but they should have not this idea
I do not use any google products or services and would prefer not to have any of their shit on my phone, but at least I can send decent videos and pics to my friends who refuse to download signal now
As a GrapheneOS user, It would be nice if they made it available to their android platforms first.
RCS is not the future it’s just a WhatsApp like app included inside the messages app. Google servers, closed source, centralized…
It does work on GrapheneOS, but you need to have Google Play Services installed.
Google blocked it.
https://9to5google.com/2024/02/29/google-messages-rcs-rooted/
That is only on rooted roms and ones using MicroG. GrapheneOS is generally not rooted and uses Google Play Services by sandboxing it. I am using RCS on my Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS.
ALL my android buds (all 3 of them) would talk about RCS as the future, better than iMessage, proof that Apple is terrible for not having it and adding it.
So anyways my iPhone has RCS now and none of their androids do. Shocker.
Every android that has Google Play services has RCS, they just need Google Messages to use it.
Meaning they have to install another app.
At which point they’d just as soon install signal and have something better.
None of their phones come with a RCS enabled messaging app by default.
My iPhone on iOS 18 does however. Which is my point entirely.
Every modern android phone I’ve used comes with Google Messages by defualt.
They should have used something like the Matrix or Signal protocol, some open standard, as opposed to RCS, which you can only use on Android with two proprietary apps - Google and Samsung Messages.
RCS is the new MMS. It’s the official “text message” replacement.
It’s shit and until the standard becomes not shit, messages between Android and iMessage are still going to suck. Almost all the stuff people think is RCS are the proprietary Google extensions that only work through Google’s servers.
But they’re supporting it because it’s the next iteration of “texting” carrier wise.
Yeah, I would love to stop getting potato quality videos on MMS, but not enough to install a proprietary app. I’ll just have to create matrix accounts for more people.
The fact that iPhones are getting this before Android phones without Google Play Services tells you all you need to know about the nature of RCS. Android has lost all of its intrigue and fun in favor of becoming GoogleOS
