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

On 2024-06-28 08:51, Abandoned Trolley wrote:

On 28/06/2024 12:36, Jörg Lorenz wrote:

Am 28.06.24 um 11:00 schrieb Andy Burns:

Jörg Lorenz wrote:
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RCS is not adding any value to the communication options.

For some of us (edge cases perhaps) it will.
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I use android, as do the majority of my friends/colleagues, but a
minority use iphone.  I refuse to use Messenger/WhatsApp, they've never
heard of Signal/Telegram.
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The only ways I can send them photos is MMS (which is expensive, so I
only do it rarely) or email, which some of them don't have on their
phones ... RCS does add value in that case.

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RCS cannot solve social issues. Your friends do not need RCS. What they
need is less resistance to learn.
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  I dont see anything here which conclusively proves that RCS will be universally availale in the long term

That's the "remains to be seen" part.  IAC, I stand by interested in the outcome.  But one part is clear: Apple will not implement Google's encryption scheme - it must be open source.
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