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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Apple is not going to change this unless legally forced to because it is quite possibly the biggest driver of iPhone sales.

A whopping 87% of American teens use an iPhone, and the green text from Android SMS is the biggest reason. At that age people will do almost anything to fit in and get a date, and the green text was chosen specifically to elicit an "eww" response. Most of those teens will likely will continue to use iPhones as adults because it's what they know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The green text peer pressure means nothing to me, but you are 100% spot on about the ecosystem driving sales. My whole family uses apple and I get left out of so many group chats and face times that I've actually considered switching to Apple even though I'm a die hard Note fan. Apples hardware may be nothing special, but they have a killer feature in their seamless, closed ecosystem, and they know it. At the end of the day, a phones job is to communicate, and Apple does that seemlessly- with other Apple devices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a slippery slope though. Unless you own a mac or pay subscribe to icloud storage tranferring photos and other files off your phone is gonna be a pain. Also, unless you get a mac with enough storage space it's also gonna be a pain because iphotos doesn't support direct transfer to external drives, so you gotta use image capture which is ridiculously barebones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait you can't transfer images directly to external harddrives?? Honestly I genuinely wonder why people put up with this shit