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RCS is so much better than SMS. All praise Apple for inventing such a wonderful thing. I just wish they’d invent some sort of port that I could plug headphones into.
RCS is garbage.
And you should use /s to let people know you're being sarcastic.
Frankly, the iMessage approach has been the answer forever, Signal had the idea for a while and dropped it.
iMessage has been the answer? This is one of the reasons I switched to Android. Apple's solution is make you all dependant on only buying their products / services to able to communicate between them. I just received a video in a group chat yesterday that looks like it was taken on a Gameboy from the 90's because one person on the chat has an iPhone that doesn't support RCS, so we're all stuck on SMS.
Honestly, WhatsApp has been the answer for years, which is fucking sad as well.
Why downvote
Probably because the article in no way has a tone of “hail apple” and instead is just informative about who can use RCS on which carriers on iPhones. It even says
So it’s not denying the fact that Apple didn’t previously support RCS. As pointed out in an above comment, you can only use RCS on Android through Google’s messages app, so it’s not like Android has been some bastion of open standards here, each corporation is driven by profit.