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.

  • stevehobbes@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    It requires provisioning by your mobile carrier. iMessage doesn’t.

    Anyone advocating for something that isn’t OTT has been living under a rock.

    • IamRoot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      And here is the part that no one seems to understand.

      Apple forced the carriers to allow iMessage because they were in a power position to do so.

      Meanwhile, GSMA has been fucking around since 2008, because no one could agree to anything.

      Management by committee or take control and make it happen.

      RCS and GSMA will not prevail.

      2008 !

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      So does your data service. You have to pay the carrier to have Internet in the cellular network. Do you think that iMessage work with faeries carrying the messages around?

      Truly the only reason RCS is pushed by the carriers is because of RBM, to monetize business to client communication. But it’s no better nor worse than WhatsApp for businesses.

      • stevehobbes@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Works over any internet eg wifi. You don’t need to have a subscription to anything at all to use iMessage.

        • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          And RCS works when you don’t have internet. What part of everything has pros and cons and it doesn’t make alternatives go away you don’t understand? what’s this need to simp for Apple? I don’t give a fuck about Apple, I just want the modernization of SMS.

          • stevehobbes@lemm.eeEnglish
            23·
            1 year ago

            Or SMS should just die….

            And how does RCS work without internet? It doesn’t work without connectivity to the cellular IMS. RCS only works on 4G and 5G. It doesn’t work on 2G/3G service which in the US is being phased out, but still exists in lots of places.