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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] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Breaking news: Apple and majority of its users still don’t care.

I’d love to have RCS, but it’s not a make or break feature for me, and I’m tech savvy enough to know what it is and what it does. Good luck trying to convince the average consumer to give a fuck about invisible tech that doesn’t meaningfully change their experience.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Considering how much time Apple users spend bitching about green text bubbles and "shitty android photos" it would meaningfully impact their experience when talking to anyone that's not on iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They blame Android for that for some reason. Makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple deliberately makes it appear that way so the competition looks bad.

They don't really advertise the fact that they're quietly intercepting all of their customers messages to other customers and routing them through a proprietary network.

And if you dare leave, messages from your old iPhone friends mysteriously won't arrive unless you proactively deregister your number from iMessage or it eventually expires out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

...or when you are given a new number from the provider and dont find out it doesn't recieve messages from iPhones.

Happened to my fiance a few months back. She got a new number, and her dad received no messages from her. (He had an iPhone) It was fathers day weekend. All plans fell through.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cause they don't realize it's a protocol issue, they just imagine that only iPhone has progressed past 2007 photo technology I guess.

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

First part is true, second part isn't. Most people aren't that dumb.

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

That is a terrible generalization and even my less tech savvy Apple friends and family don't think this.

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