And eventually, we'll go through cvs, svn, and then _finally_ get git on the iPhone?
yeah but first you're going to have to deal with them putting ,v after all the names in your address book.
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
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#12Can we please get SD Card expandable storage back next?
iPhone never had this, so it wouldn't be "back".
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#13I wonder what color the bubble will be?
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#14I was working on RCS systems back in 2012. It was the future back them - incredible low latency for messaging and gaming, rich messaging, and a decent SDK.
How did carriers fuck it up so badly that, a decade later, it's barely a blip on the messaging landscape? The were so desperate to stop OTT (over the top) services that they... locked everything down in the hope that customers wouldn't churn. It backfired spectacularly.
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#15> This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Instead, it’s the company adopting RCS separately from iMessage. Very important.
I don't mind Apple adopting RCS the same way that SMS is implemented. I like that iMessage can add features at whatever pace Apple wants. RCS will at least fix the annoying group message problems that Android/iOS have.
Agreed. I don't mind them having their messaging platform. I don't mind it being technically superior to RCS.
I DO have an issue with them intentionally doing a shit job of integrating with a telecommunications standard and then slapping a green bubble on it to get their oblivious users to ostracize people's kids.
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#16I wonder what color the bubble will be?
Not blue, because that signals capabilities which are specific to iMessages (E2E encryption, message effects, stickers, etc.).
Re: Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
#17I wonder what color the bubble will be?
Maybe not green, but it should probably remain different so there’s an unmistakable visual indicator of which conversations are encrypted (assuming Apple implements carrier-flavor RCS, which to my knowledge is not encrypted unlike Google-flavor).
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#19this is meant to hold back regulators, just for a couple more years, so, for a couple more years it will be green bubbles android, blue bubbles iOS.
The teenage market share is 87% currently. just a couple more years is all they need.
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#20Hopefully this'll mean better Google Fi support for the iPhone. It's a little janky, but $20/line is hard to pass up.