• kirklennon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The whole iMessage/RCS conversation is really only relevant in the US; in other countries basically everyone uses WhatsApp or Kakao or LINE or whatever the local favorite is. In the US, there is no industry-standard RCS. It’s theoretically a carrier-based messaging service but all of the carriers outsourced it to Google so, as an alternative to iMessage, the option is a proprietary extension of RCS running on Google servers, something that is exactly as open as iMessage itself.

    If you want a true industry standard way to send messages to people, the iPhone has had that since 2007: email.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s still very relevant to everyone else. An open standard is better than a closed system like WhatsApp.

      One day we’ll wonder why we let so much get tangled up in single companies. You’d think Twitter would wake people up.

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        1 year ago

        RCS the open standard is missing critical features. Google’s implementation fixes that, but is not open. I don’t think we should give a pass to RCS just because it’s open. SMS is a legacy format but it’s unconscionable these days to release a new messaging platform without E2E encryption. That’s a minimum viable product feature, not a maybe nice to have in the future feature.