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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] ki77erb@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] knotthatone@lemmy.world 28 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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 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.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 9 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.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple users are.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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