It’s all about the bubbles.

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.

  • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    RCS dates to 2008 and Appul didn’t support it. Now we know that Appul is stuck in 2007 or earlier.

    Edit: it seems RCS is another centralized hellscape

    • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      225·
      9 months ago

      RCS dates back to 2008 and Samsung and Google are just now getting around to supporting it… They should be ashamed of themselves. iMessage exists, and has the pull that it does, because Google spent 15 years fucking around with all kinds of bull shit. Meanwhile, Apple users had 1 consistent platform which saw regular updates to add features and functionality.

      Ars put a nice list together of Google’s nonsense. Maybe Google should prove they can stick to something for more than a year or two before having the gall to shame others who have been very consistent on their approach for over a decade.

      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

      • Traegs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Samsung and Google are just now getting around to supporting it

        Hey now, I’ve been rocking RCS for three years. The only reason it took so long to begin with is because Google was trying to get service providers to implement it themselves. Google finally said fuck it and started doing it themselves iMessage style and then providers started playing along.

    • MellowSnow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Centralized or not, it’s a massive improvement over basic SMS/MMS.

      Edit: at least the concept is. Implementation aside, it’s crazy that there isn’t a cross-platform texting option that has more modern capabilities than what we’ve been using for the past couple decades.

      • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I’m not sure anyone uses SMS to chat anyway.

        it’s crazy that there isn’t a cross-platform texting option that has more modern capabilities than what we’ve been using for the past couple decades.

        *Cough*, *cough*. Man, it’s freezing outside.