https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/
Quite interesting that this news drops a few days after Nothing announced a roundabout solution to sending iMessages to iPhone from Android
bubbles are staying green, however
Apple Announces That RCS Support Is Coming to iPhone Next Year
Gdsamp on 17/11/2023 - 14:42
Last edited 17/11/2023 - 14:49 by 1 other user
Last edited 17/11/2023 - 14:49 by 1 other user
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I saw the MKBD video on the Nothing phone. Apparently the struggle to be blue bubble in the US as a teenager is real according to the video. I don't see similar things happening here in OZ though, although an actual teenager might want to chime in rather than a boomer. :)
Nearly 9 in 10 American teens use iPhone and and even higher percentage plan on their next phone being on iPhone https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-rules-gen-z-nearly-90-…
I think teenagers actually have a good case over wanting an iPhone over an Android. It'd be like not having a bowler hat 100 years ago. Fitting in, if that's what they want to do, is not necessarily a bad thing. I don't see many non trans men wearing dresses, despite the fact there's no rules against it or anything. Most women won't shave their head bald despite the advantages of doing so. Fitting in is a fine thing to want.
I am not that old, I have no idea what people wore 100 years ago. :P
If a teenager wanted blue bubbles on an Android phone, it wouldn't be too difficult to do it. All the teenager would have to do is spend some time to learn how to setup a virtualized machine running MacOS and install some software on it and use the AirMessage app. I think the Nothing phone skips this whole process and bake it into the phone.
Sorry if I sound a bit cynical, it is hard to get my teenager to do anything other than eat these days. I didn't downvote you by the way.
Also the USA is one of the few nations left that don't use Metric system(along with Myanmar and some other 3rd world nation), so USA teens are not a great example. :)
And Apple's biggest Supplier of components for Iphones is Samsung.
lol, every time I see the discussion around the blue/green bubble thing, I think what a amazingly American centric "problem" that is. As MKBHD says in that video, yeah, 50% of his comments were saying just use WhatsApp and call it a day, exactly right. The only people who whinge about it are Americans.
One of my daughters went to a private girls high school — she was the only one in her friend group using an Android phone. Now she studies engineering in university, and she said none of her close coursemates use an iPhone.
she said none of her close coursemates use an iPhone
Now the curious thing here is the selecting that occurred to make these relationships happen. Are the iPhone users not socialising with non-iPhone users (or vice versa) due to:
- specifically the possession/lack of an iPhone
- other social/cultural/behavioural/personality aspects/traits that are typically more/less common in iPhone or non-iPhone users
- unrelated coincidental aspects that have nothing to do with the iPhone
Still happens to some degree, but not nearly as bad as the US. It's getting better in recent years, but thankfully Aussies use Messenger/Snapchat/Instagram more commonly than iMessage. Most of the Android prejudice revolved around how bad the cameras were on social media apps for years, but that's almost non-existent these days.
This will probably be good for iMessage in the long run. Apple will improve iMessage even more to make it stand out from the new "standard" RCS.
RCS is just another way scammers annoy us.
that's awesome, what is RCS?
Ask Siri, oh wait, next year. Click on the link at the top.
Sir's response RCS stands for 'Radio Communications Standard, would you like me to find a local radio station for you?'.
;)
Since there's not a serious answer here:
RCS = Rich Communication Services
Basically bringing some features/aspects of real-time chat/messaging to carrier-based messaging (i.e. SMS).
I’m hoping to get my family on board with a group chat and ditch facebook messenger
About time. What next. No home button.
This is an analogue as to why there are so many poor people in America despite it being the most powerful and richest country in the world.
Just shit people do to harm themselves.
It's because all their 90% of their kids use iphones (due to peer pressure), have a bunker, and each own an AR15, plus a S&W .357, a glock + a Browning semi auto pistol, not to mention all the ammunition, for the next Zombie Apocalypse, plus 1 years supply of dehydrated food, + filtered water. ;)
Plus their Health system.
Welcome to 2008. ;)
Kudos to Apple, though firstly, USB-C, now this.
I think it's a great move by Apple.
Well done.
its not at apple being nice and providing.
they have to compile with EU digital laws by mid 2024.
also currently antitrust case is happening against apple in usa.
APple have played Google here. Google were whinging about Apple not implementing RCS compatibility, whereas Google run a proprietary hacked-together version of RCS themselves.
Apple is implementing the GSMA standard RCS, not Google's. Google now cannot whinge about RCS compatibility because the onus is now on carriers to upgrade on their end.
RCS is not universally standardised in its installation.
Wont change anything, iphone users wouldnt even know what RCS is and will continue to see green bubbles.
Yep because RCS does not support End-to-End encryption. Green text = not E2EE.
SMS was always Green in iOS, even between iPhones, until they changed the colours for ENCRYPTED messages.
Fredfloresjr on 17/11/2023 - 14:45 Comment score below threshold.