Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

  • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    1 year ago

    Also I’m not sure why everyone is championing RCS - it’s yet another proprietary communication standard like iMessage and isn’t open thus can’t be easily implemented in other chat apps.

    My guy, this entire article is about Google and Samsung trying to convince Apple to adopt RCS.

    Is a completely open standard better? Yeah, absolutely.

    Would RCS basically create unified rich communication for virtually everyone? Also yes.

    • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      RCS isn’t open at all in practice and anyone who wants to put the carriers (or more likely Google) in control of messaging is a moron.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Nobody wants to do that, except that the alternative is SMS, which is much much worse.