Is there a RCS message app on F-Droid? I’m obviously not using Google messages, currently using Simple SMS messages, but wanted something with RCS.
RCS isn’t as open as SMS, it’s just as proprietary as iMessage, Google has just expressed a willingness to let other companies use it. They’re playing nice because they’re the underdog in the US market. If RCS becomes the new standard, Google will exploit that fact.
Shouldn’t the EU enforce an open standard, rather than one controlled by a ‘gatekeeper’?
The EU are doing exactly that, but they’re doing it the sensible way. Instead of pointing to a particular standard (Signal, RCS, whatever) and saying you must use this, they’re forcing Apple, WhatsApp, etc to publish open APIs that allow others to hook into their services. This allows platforms that are distinctive to develop but prevents vendor lock-in. Honestly, I’ll be all over WhatsApp and iMessage once I can use an open-source client to hook into them.
Does this mean we can get iMessage support on Android?
Not yet, because as the article mentioned, Apple disputed their position on iMessage being a gatekeeper because “the userbase is really small”, so it’ll be a while before this is investigated and any conclusions are drawn.
They should. Absolutely. I think the ideal would be that the EU require Google to open up RCS to be interoperable with other standards like Matrix and Signal. But even barring that, requiring Apple to support RCS would be a massive improvement.
I just don’t want to accidentally give Google the power we’re trying to take from Apple. That just puts us back at square one.
It’s more open in the sense that the GSMA (not Google) licenses it to pretty much anyone who wants it.
Apple does not license it to anyone and refuses to.
While its still proprietary, the fact that anyone CAN use it is a pretty huge difference than being 100% vendor-locked.
Fuck all of that i don’t want my secure messages to ever reach a apple, Facebook or Google Server
They’re gonna need that reaction control system in orbit! No chance of getting to Neptune without one, really.
I was wondering why a phone would need radar cross section requirements. Looks like stealth phones are the new thing in modern air combat.
I turned rcs off on my phone it made messaging complete unreliable I was sending messages and be notified it couldn’t be sent hours after the fact.
Works perfectly for me for the last 5 years or so.
Seems to work for nobody in the UK all the recent reviews are one or two stars.
Yeah, if there are regional problems with it, that’d make some sense. In US (where I am) it may be a lot more reliable.
…Which also makes some sense as US stuck with SMS and transitioned pretty much directly to MMS and RCS (for non-Apple). And carriers have been pushing RCS.
I’m guessing UK is like a lot of other countries where people have switched to WhatsApp or other proprietary chat systems?
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