Technology

59586 readers

5454 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

1130

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology

434 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] uis 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

RCS dates to 2008 and Appul didn't support it. Now we know that Appul is stuck in 2007 or earlier.

Edit: it seems RCS is another centralized hellscape

[+] bob_wiley 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[deleted]

[–] Traegs 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Samsung and Google are just now getting around to supporting it

Hey now, I've been rocking RCS for three years. The only reason it took so long to begin with is because Google was trying to get service providers to implement it themselves. Google finally said fuck it and started doing it themselves iMessage style and then providers started playing along.

[–] MellowSnow 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Centralized or not, it's a massive improvement over basic SMS/MMS.

Edit: at least the concept is. Implementation aside, it's crazy that there isn't a cross-platform texting option that has more modern capabilities than what we've been using for the past couple decades.

[–] uis 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure anyone uses SMS to chat anyway.

it's crazy that there isn't a cross-platform texting option that has more modern capabilities than what we've been using for the past couple decades.

*Cough*, *cough*. Man, it's freezing outside.