Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration

W Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:35:13 +0200, Kees Nuyt napisal:

Once Apple supports RCS & after the carriers support their iOS RCS bundles,
what problems will be solved when RCS is finally working on both platforms?

 Only Apple's problem is solved: Apple will be able to track
those messages.  No user or carrier gets any better by it.

Gizmodo lists the problems that should be solved when RCS is in iOS.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-messages-supports-rcs-ios18-beta-1851562461
"Audio and video sent between devices will no longer be compressed down."
"Group chats will no longer be butchered and broken as friends and family
attempt to find common ground, such as who will bring the dessert to the
gathering."
"And you'll see when an iPhone user has left you, dear Android
user, on read."
Also for those who pay for MMS messages on a per-byte basis, RCS will
eliminate that fee; but that's not the main purpose of using RCS overall.
It still doesn't solve the problem that Apple users are habitually logging
into messaging servers on the Internet which exposes them to metadata
privacy losses.