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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
submitted 11 months ago by kae@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I imagine they'll probably keep the blue bubbles and some features exclusive to iMessage users, but this is still great news.

I wonder if this will encourage Google to allow Fi users to have RCS while texting from PC...

[–] GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yep, they’ll definitely stick to the blue green system that already exists, threads with greens will just be improved from what they were/currently are

[–] 13617@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What do you guys think is going to happen with like an open RCS standard? RCS is only available on Google messages.

[–] tcely@fosstodon.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

RCS has always been an open standard.

Only Google has done the work to implement it for billions of devices, so far.

That has never prevented Apple from also implementing the standard on their devices.

https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/

@13617 @Corgana

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Wonder how it is that smaller community-based chat protocols with many more features can have so many client options: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

While basic text messaging was for years only implemented by Google app.