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Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU.

Right now, when people on iOS and Android message each other, the service falls back to SMS — photos and videos are sent at a lower quality, messages are shortened, and importantly, conversations are not end-to-end encrypted like they are in iMessage. Messages from Android phones show up as green bubbles in iMessage chats and chaos ensues.

Apple’s announcement was likely an effort to appease EU regulators.

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[–] BurningnnTree@lemmy.one 1 points 4 months ago

Apple could easily do the bare minimum to keep regulators at bay while still keeping the experience as shitty as possible so that Android will continue to look bad. For example they could refuse to implement reactions or typing indicators, or they could even deliberately compress videos. I'm expecting the worst until we see otherwise.

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

What if they kept the green color just to troll...

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

RCS is the wrong standard to use though, as there isn't a single FOSS Android RCS client. They should support something like Matrix.

[–] brognak@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yea, like that would ever in literally any possible incarnation of any possible existence where Apple is a thing happen. Totally.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg -1 points 4 months ago

I mean, in the Steve Jobs Apple it might have.

Steve originally pushed for web apps to dominate on the emerging open web standards.

Apple used to care about the customer more than they do now (IMO).