The blame always goes to Apple, but iMessage was developed because no one could get their shit together with RCS. RCS predates iMessage by a few years.
It’s ridiculous that you have to use a third party if you want consistent cross platform messaging.
As anyone who has tried knows, getting people to switch to something else where I on Android can seamlessly connect to you on iOS is a huge hassle.
It’s ridiculous that you have to use a third party if you want consistent cross platform messaging.
Nah, I like it that way.
SMS has been shit since it first came out. Well, to be fair, it was always a best-effort, cell-based “protocol”, so could never really grow out of it’s origins.
There was no value for cell vendors to replace it - it was low-cost for them, and they got a lot of data mining from it.
Apple saw an opportunity to make an app that made iPhone superior. So why not.
Anyone else could’ve done the same with a cross-platform app, but chose not too (except by then Apple had already said “only one SMS app”).
Still, an app on Android that integrated SMS with proper modern messaging would’ve made iMessage look like the holdout, instead of the reverse (which is what we have today) - and the pressure would be on Apple to compete.
Also, RCS is too little, too late, and being tied to a phone number it’s backwards.
They might only because they were forced by EU and the problem above remains. It will continue being a closed ecosystem with no other options for consumers.
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Are there any alternatives for RCS?
Google implementation of RCS (Jibe I think it’s called) is proprietary. A third party client has to be explicitly allowed and supported by Google.
But are there any non Google third party clients?
Well the messages app that comes with samsung does support Google’s RCS as far as I know.
That’s not really a good option, although technically it is third party RCS app. Is there any FOSS or not device locked ones?
I am not aware of any.
No. Unless Google opens it up there won’t be.
The blame always goes to Apple, but iMessage was developed because no one could get their shit together with RCS. RCS predates iMessage by a few years.
It’s ridiculous that you have to use a third party if you want consistent cross platform messaging.
As anyone who has tried knows, getting people to switch to something else where I on Android can seamlessly connect to you on iOS is a huge hassle.
Nah, I like it that way.
SMS has been shit since it first came out. Well, to be fair, it was always a best-effort, cell-based “protocol”, so could never really grow out of it’s origins.
There was no value for cell vendors to replace it - it was low-cost for them, and they got a lot of data mining from it.
Apple saw an opportunity to make an app that made iPhone superior. So why not.
Anyone else could’ve done the same with a cross-platform app, but chose not too (except by then Apple had already said “only one SMS app”).
Still, an app on Android that integrated SMS with proper modern messaging would’ve made iMessage look like the holdout, instead of the reverse (which is what we have today) - and the pressure would be on Apple to compete.
Also, RCS is too little, too late, and being tied to a phone number it’s backwards.
Apple are implementing RCS
They might only because they were forced by EU and the problem above remains. It will continue being a closed ecosystem with no other options for consumers.