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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

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[–] viking@infosec.pub 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People actually use that? Everybody I know is using whatsapp and/or signal. Nobody bothers about proprietary crap.

[–] Cihta@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is your demo? In my world it's quite different. Isn't Whatsapp proprietary? And I know few that will bother with signal these days. I've started getting obvious spam invites on it as well so...

RCS should just be the standard. There is no reason to argue that.. it doesn't end the apps you use but many of us are tired of multiple apps.

[–] Espi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Is RCS encrypted? I still prefer signal above everything else. Whatsapp seems to be passable privacy wise, but it's Facebook so I don't trust it one bit.

One way or another, Whatsapp is the standard around the world and it for sure beats SMS.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatsapp is using the signal protocol, which is open. So the app itself might be proprietary, but not the implementation.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're still all disconnected.

It kills me that after going through the old messaging apps days (ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc), then a small window of hope with XMPP we're back to disconnected messaging apps on mobile.

Even worse: SMS is distributed. I can send an SMS to anyone in the world, even if they use an old Nokia phone on 2G with a mobile carrier I've never heard of. But instead of using its modern version, RCS, people are happy to hop from a proprietary service to another.

[–] Cihta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you. My Nokia N900 and later N9 were great solutions. All my sms, aim, icq, msn etc was all seamless along with instant load time. Then came things like line, FB messenger, Whatsapp. It was just how to have everything in one place.

RCS is probably the best option at this point if Imessage could use it. Then i wouldn't need other apps for those friends to get decent quality.

Sad to learn signal wasn't the standalone service I thought it was. I might sound old but really don't care about sticker packs. I do care about quality shares without another app.