Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
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Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
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Ah, great! So Apple will provide the platform and it will be interoperable with Google. I’m glad they fixed the protocol instead of everyone using Google’s servers.
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You're still using Google's servers even if you're on iPhone, though now Google shouldn't be able to read your messages.
It's just that Apple didn't want to support Google's proprietary encryption protocol. So they worked to make end to end encryption part of the RCS standard, and now that it is, Apple is willing to support it.
Edit: Small correction. It seem's like RCS on iPhone does not always use Google servers. It's just that US carriers have partnered with Google to provide their RCS support.
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It's just that US carriers have partnered with Google to provide their RCS support.
Not sure if I’d call this “partnered”. AFAIK every carrier can provide their own RCS infrastructure via some data on the SIM. However, as Google wanted to push RCS, they’ve added a fallback to their own servers into the Android Messaging app. And I guess this then became somewhat of a “standard”.
And carriers are busy enough counting all that money we pay them, so they were happy to not having to do anything.
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IMO RCS was a diversion put up by Google against Apple but I’m not sure what was the exact reason behind it.
Not even using RCS right now with anyone, worst thing I can do with my friends is chat on WhatsApp if they don’t have iPhones and I doubt RCS‘s popularity in the 🇪🇺
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RCS is just a more modern messaging standard. Google wanted Apple to implement it so bad because it makes messaging Android users nicer. And yes, it doesn't matter in Europe so much, but the US uses the preinstalled messaging apps. So iPhone users get iMessage talking to iPhone users and fell back to SMS whenever talking to Android users.
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So no more blue vs green box bullshit? Stupidest thing I've seen is hate because you got a green text box.
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iMessage still has other features that RCS lacks.
Even if they were at feature parity, I don’t think RCS would ever be blue. Blue is the “premium” messaging experience.
Maybe one day Apple will give RCS its own color to separate it from SMS. I hope they do to signify its security.
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Blue means the iMessage protocol is being used by all parties. So that means things like end-to-end encryption, data-driven messaging and photos, videos, rich replies, effects, voice replies, etc…
Green means the SMS protocol is being used by at least one person so everything is dumbed down to what SMS can do.
It’s going to stay green, just that green now includes end-to-end encryption as long as all parties are using RMS.
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Nah I'm sure that's not gonna change, it's effortless marketing lock-in for apple
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