Apple finally caves, announces plan to bring RCS to iPhones in 2024
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- AnonF-1006353
- S0w
- 18 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023"want a removable battery, headphone jack and SD card ... moreThere are ways to design all of these things failsave and with only very minimal additional space requirement. But i know there are people like you with a limited mind and vision in terms of engineering, who love to support companies with lazy anti consumer practices that take away choice and flexibility from the user, just for the sake of profit. Who just assume people won't need this or that as a weak argument, instead of supporting people to unleash the full potential from their devices and all its possibilities, and encouraging phone designers to walk the extra mile to implement it. If you want dumbed down 1000$ emoji lifestyle machines just buy something from the fruit company and let more demanding users alone, please.
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- HKx
- 18 Nov 2023
Anonymous, 18 Nov 2023I hope people in Europe aren’t as shallow as this author. Wdym by shallow? You mean normal?
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- Anonymous
- Ibx
- 18 Nov 2023
I hope people in Europe aren’t as shallow as this author.
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- Carol
- nUJ
- 18 Nov 2023
Primitive tech holden at place by primitive companies like apple hand in hand with Verizon and at&t, keeping people in absolute ignorance so their garbage can further dig money out of them pockets.
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- Anonymousxe
- gqr
- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023"Apple will use the original RCS protocols instead of ... moreThanks for that info,
Go Apple, show Goolge how it should be DONE 👍
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- Anonymousxe
- gqr
- 17 Nov 2023
google with their shady ways, is the problem.
server, server, server, server.
google jibe, google jibe, google jibe, google jibe.
google jibe screwing with
gsma, gsma, gsma, gsma
carriers, carriers, carriers, carriers
- NeonHD
- 6Fi
- 17 Nov 2023
Jensa, 17 Nov 2023I have never understood the hype about iMessage. I have an ... moreYou're not missing out on anything. I mean there's read receipts and HD media support, but that's not really important and anyone who complains about it are just being nitpicky. Besides the lack of read receipts is good (for me xD)
- NeonHD
- 6Fi
- 17 Nov 2023
Love the author's stance on this. Would've been even funnier if the author mistakenly wrote "green is good, blue is poor - or something like that" on purpose.
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- Anonymous
- pee
- 17 Nov 2023
People in Germany for example most of the time have contracts with unlimited phoning to each national net, sometimes unlimited text (SMS) to each net and limited data (5GB to 50GB in regular).
Unlimited data is also available since a few years but it's extremely expensive compared to the limited data contracts.
Yet it's only a question of time until unlimited data contracts will become the golden standard like it became for home internet contracts a few years ago.
Like someone already said, SMS is a dying horse in Europe. Some carriers already deactivated the possibility to send SMS in their net but you can still receive them.
RCS which is the successor to SMS won't change anything on that, that it's already replaced in Europe by messengers, mostly WhatsApp.
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- Anonymous
- T66
- 17 Nov 2023
ZXT, 16 Nov 2023Who cares? It's not like anyone outside the USA uses i... moreI prefer SMS/RCS because everyone I know has a phone number. It's the one common factor for everyone.
Not everyone uses the same messaging platform - (Joke: For every 5 people nearby, there's 6 messaging apps in use). And many of my relatives don't have internet/data services at all, so those other platforms that are data-required, are completely worthless.
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- Anonymous
- IhZ
- 17 Nov 2023
why is Apple always behind on everything??? get it together smh
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- Anonymous
- T66
- 17 Nov 2023
als, 16 Nov 2023No. It's objectively worse.
But, no... I'm not i... moreOMFG! I needed that laugh today.
That makes me feel better, knowing that for today at least, I'm not the low-hanging fruit.
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- potato4k
- XZ8
- 17 Nov 2023
Bluemarble, 17 Nov 2023Why US users still using iMessage where there are much bett... moreIt's because in the US, most cellular plans already offer unlimited voice and text by default, so there's no incentive to use other services. In most other countries, prepaid/pay-as-you-go are the norm, and users are paying per SMS message. Even postpaid plans have limited quotas on voice and text. Thus when something like Whatsapp came out that made messaging essentially free by using data, users are adopting it quickly.
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- Anonymous
- rRU
- 17 Nov 2023
Nobody needs RCS. We need replaceable bigger batteries on thicker phones and louder, bigger speakers.
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- yalim
- mu4
- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023But WhatsApp doesn't support SMS. iMessage is better i... moreSMS was replaced by whastapp about 10-15 years ago. I work in telecom business for 15 years and I know SMS is not used by individuals anymore. mostly, companies use it for promotion, single sign-on or banks use it for 3D secure payment. whatsapp is already preinstalled on most of new phones so, a non-whatsapp user would be old symbian or old nokia phone user. I'm not lying but, I have never seen any of my friends (europe,uk,russia) or family members use imessage. if I would be using imessage, it would be 30-40% probability to succeed sending media. on whastapp this probability is 99%.
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- Anonymous
- 70d
- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023SMS is an awful lot more reliable than data or phone calls ... moreYou're either stupid or trolling. Using RCS doesn't mean that you can't use SMS.
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- Anonymous
- CbB
- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023"want a removable battery, headphone jack and SD card ... moreMost of your arguments are not valid. There are many holes on smartphones that are essential, does that make smartphone less waterproof?
How much longer you may argue but one thing you can not refute is that however bt technology advance, it can not go ahead of wired technology in sound quality.
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- Phome Siddhartha
- 0mL
- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023"want a removable battery, headphone jack and SD card ... moreHahah, you believe that? What about the charging port? Is it not making the phone less waterproof then? Also there are microphone holes;D! Why there is no phone on the market solely charged wirelessly, with no ports?
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- 17 Nov 2023
Gamma Ghetti, 17 Nov 2023Nooo. Please just let RCS die. I have exclusively owned Pix... moreSorry, are you about 5? I use the Pixel and iPhone and my messages are delivered just fine.
Most people I know use WhatsApp even iPhone users. The only thing I use imessage for is to communicate with my brother. I guess imessage is big in the States but in the UK people are not ripping their hair out about it. you really need to chill out.
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- Jensa
- mv8
- 17 Nov 2023
I have never understood the hype about iMessage. I have an iPhone at work and there’s nothing special or better with iMessage. Maybe I am missing something but nah.