Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year - eviltoast

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year::In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The…

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I kind of want the different colors for now. This will be unencrypted until we get universal E2EE that isn’t being gate kept by Google.

    That’s a pretty important feature gap, and I want to know if something isn’t secure E2E.

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      1 year ago

      I definitely want to know google has no hand in my data. The colors are good.

      My friends who use android use signal.

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      1 year ago

      RCS isn’t “gatekept” by Google, it’s an open standard. Other companies could set up their own RCS servers but they didn’t want to spend the money.