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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.

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[–] dynamojoe 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This public shaming bullshit reminds me of Epic's Fortnite debacle and it's not a good look, especially from Samsung who usually mocks Apple on Monday and is copying them by Friday (see "no CD drives in laptops" or "no headphone jack" or "no removable batteries in the phone"). I know they're completely different issues but whining is whining.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Satan and the Devil call Lucifier.

[–] TheEighthDoctor 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't sent an SMS since like 2013 or something like that. Couldn't care less about this blue green controversy, my use of SMS is receiving 2fa codes and spam.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah, this is very much a weird USA issue.

I often only have internet access - no sms (receive only), no calls. Don't want to pay for it, don't need it.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Just download Signal. Cross platform, verifably E2E, and verifiably no data collected by Open Whisper (as per their submission in a lawsuit). Also, one of the authors/architects of Signal occasionally trolls the companies that provide mobile spyware.

[–] Crashumbc 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

How does Signal communicate with non signal users?

99% of the people I txt with would never use Signal...

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[–] MrSilkworm 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think this issue is mostly a USA one, considering that most communications there have caps (data, phone time, SMS etc.) Paradoxically, the market there doesn't work very well and prices are relatively high. Big corporations take advantage of it to lock people to their ecosystems. There is a high probability that this issue, will be regulated by the EU, since US policy makers are unable to solve much more important problems. For them this is not an issue. The market has solved it.

[–] Caiman86 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd argue the SMS/MMS reliance in the US is entirely because there have been no caps on it for years now. Nearly all plans you can get here have unlimited SMS/MMS included, even cheap prepaid ones.

Having a fixed allotment of texts or minutes hasn't been a thing for over a decade at this point, and the only thing that's expensive now is data.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's entirely a US issue. Everywhere else just uses platform agnostic apps like WhatsApp, telegram, signal, etc to get round the issue. Americans hitch their wagons to a corporate manufacturer like an identity and then moan about people who buy the other brand having different coloured text message bubbles.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

RCS needs to happen, I'm so sick of Whatsapp.

[–] neblem 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not switch to something not owned by Facebook like Signal (or something on an open protocol like Element)?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

No one I know uses Signal or is skilled enough to switch away from Whatsapp. 100% have WhatsApp.

Trying to switch, would be like talking people into using Linux. Not going to happen unless the current option got much worse.

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[–] uis 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Everyone (in America) wants them to be together

Rest of the world already moved on to better services.

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