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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So essentially they're just as bad as RCS. Both hamstrung by the limitations of their encryptions interoperability

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hamstrung in different ways?

RCS predates iMessage, but it was never widely adopted. Google has been running with it, but it’s been with Google-specific changes to the protocol

If they can get others to adopt their extensions as a standard and offer an open source example implementation, it could probably be better than iMessage

Google has a problem getting other people to use standards they work on because they drop support for them all the time, though