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Seems like Nothing did it?
No, Nothing will provide a bridge to iMessage by logging with your password on the Mac mini farm. Not something that you want.
Also nothing didn't shit, they partnered with Sunbird.
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They aren't doing this by choice lol
Still better than nothing lol.
I don't want to be cynical, but is this part required for Apple to implement RCS?
"and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users."
I can totally imagine it being limited to the encryption and the bare minimum, as imessages features don't perfectly overlap with the RCS features (e.g. emojis).
Let me know when you can use RCS on an Android phone without Google Play Services outside of Google Messages
I think this is because the carriers were slow / refused to host RCS on their servers so most carriers make you use Google servers.
I’m glad that they’re finally going to implement it but I can’t help but shake the feeling that there’s still going to be some interoperability issues.
If they can manage it, it's safe to assume they will implement those issues
Ugh, yet another chat network to use...
I guess now we wait for Android to add support too.
RCS falls back to SMS/MMS, so it's not another app, it's a replacement for texting (and iMessage).
iMessage is, basically, just a proprietary way of doing what RCS is designed to do, so Apple can use peer pressure to get teens (and adults) to exclusivity buy iPhones so their messages are the "right" colour.
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It already has support on Android. I send rcs messages to other friends with Android. Read receipts. No longer mms and sms. It's great.
Google Messages is a proprietary chat app that connects to proprietary Google Jire servers on phone carrier's site. It does not use barebone RCS protocol, this is why only Google is now able to make such app even if the app does not use any permission that other apps don't have.
Native support for Android was planned for Android 11, soon we'll get Android 14 and still no support in sight.
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