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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let’s be fair, things like RCS E2E encryption are firmly under control by Google. People like to claim RCS is open, but it’s not.

If RCS was a proper open standard, we would have a lot of awesome messaging apps to choose from. We don’t, and the reason is because Google has been gatekeeping.

I’m annoyed that Apple is late to the game, and I hate that they needed to be pressured to get here, BUT I’m glad to see that they’re going to support universal alternatives to the crap you still have to ask Pichai to please let you use.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Also RCS is build that way. It has more features than SMS, but underneath is even worse than it. Why in the 2023 people massively want to go back tying their chat app with mobile carrier? Like, giving what Internet standards we now have RCS should really be considered deprecated, hope we won't be stuck with it for next 30 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Because who is going to operate the servers?

Originally with RCS it was the carrier, but basically every carrier switched to using Jibe (by Google) for the backend.

And it sounds like Apple is going to operate their own as well.

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

Yeah... Matrix seems so much better over all for me. It's just not as controllable so there is less investment in pushing adoption from companies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There is also XMPP which is much more developed than RCS and surpasses it on every front.