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I gave an LLM current news about companies and asked it to write a news digest like it was Jim Cramer
Why the BABY acquisition premise is circumstantial at best and UTTERLY RETARDED at worst.
Would you buy a stock up 40% in last two trading days? SNCR
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For the brother stonk holders, is this any further proof that RCS is a real disease afflicting millions? (Reverse Cramer Syndrome) Im All in ! Thank you brother!
> Big part of Apple's current market share is due to being tied to Apple's ecosystem. "The reason Apple sells a lot of shit is because they have a value prop" Yes. That's how business works. >It's difficult to transfer your stuff over to Android No it isn't. There's an app for it. >Apple users have a hard time messaging with Android users unless everyone uses WhatsApp etc. (they don't) No they don't. RCS is supported on iOS now. >The second reason why Apple does well is marketing. Google and Samsung also have marketing departments. Apple does well because they sell a product that users like. It's not that hard. I use a Mac. Why? Because POSIX + battery life + hardware quality. My mom uses an iPhone because; 1. software support iOS 26 is supported for the iPhone 11, 2. she can go to a brick and mortar apple store if things break, 3. your aforementioned ecosystem.
It's a setting for Google Messenger.... so in a way I guess. It's called RCS.
It’s allowing for 5.3 restricted common stock, which are held by employees or larger investors/CEOs, to be available. This could mean it’s opening up for more outside investors, to pay off debts, or to raise capital for new ventures. It could also be that it was a scheduled/regulatory event. It’s normal for RCS to be released for the company to be able to raise liquidity. If they weren’t sure they’d be able to sell it, they wouldn’t have released them. But we’d have to know who sold and how much. If it was 100% of someone’s RCS portfolio, that would be a red flag, but if it was a small percentage to allow cash flow, then it’s not a huge deal. Also, RCS are NOT dilutions. A larger amount of RCS would be a red flag, but this looks like a normal.
Yeah the list goes on.. Refusing to use RCS messaging in order to force people to buy iPhones (thankfully regulators finally put a stop to that bullshit). The green bubbles thing. Bricking features on 3rd party watches to force you to use an Apple watch..
I started with apple, switch to android, but went back to apple because of the iMessage. Today though RCS messaging is accessible/easy and comparable and compatible universally. No need for Apple anymore. I can go Samsung for a better phone at similar price.
Market cap is relative. The path to now has been tough on shareholders. $AGRI is considered by many to be a P&D, mainly because they’ve done so many dilutive measures in their recent history. But clearly they’ve done well recapitalizing those offerings into legit ASIC miners. Does hardware go stale and will this become a liability, yes it will. But ideally by combining mining and acquiring new agricultural customers, they can refresh that hardware at set periodic intervals. https://ir2.agriforcegs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/AgriFORCE-Presentation-Jan-27-2025.pdf It’s also curious they have the TerraHash and the RCS business. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/03/05/3037486/0/en/AgriFORCE-Growing-Systems-Ltd-Announces-Purchase-Orders-for-RCS-Devices.html
Her phone constantly bounces between RCS and SMS
mango mobile isn't going to support RCS :(
It's 11:05 and the goth girl hasn't showed up yet for our date. I sent her a message 2 hours ago, I saw the RCS notification that she read it, but no reply Looks like I saved $500 to buy more stock tomorrow
I was flashing ROM after ROM trying to find a build that could smoothly scroll the Home Screen or app launcher. I was overclocking and undervolting playing life on extra hard. Oh and I fucking hate Android dickheads refusing to turn on RCS and basically forwarding our conversations to a government database.
You’ll always be at the whim of the markets. HYSAs don’t generally beat inflation, if even matching it in recent years. I don’t mean to sound gloomy, but this situation will get worse before it gets better. I’m in individual stocks, hedging with options (or really, downright playing in long dated options). This is an… interesting time to learn this. I would park it somewhere predictable, learn, and wait. Then again, I’m more of a trader. I get the allure of DCA forever. Buuuuuuuuut lost decades happen. My LT “boring fund” is sitting in RCS (strategic income fund, DRIP method, short dated US bonds), KO, ADM, and a few ETFs across some historically cheap sectors (energy comes to mind, as does consumer discretionary, though they are volatile). 30, contribute about the same you do to it. Exited SPY in Feb, haven’t looked back.
I want to agree with you because fuck apple right BUT Google pushed hard on RCS and apple has finally adopted it so... Feels like a swing and a miss?
He started the green bubbles and limited non-iPhones to SMS until the courts/regulators finally forced them to utilize RCS in order to pressure people into switching to iPhones. He was also at the helm during batterygate and had to have been behind that decision. Pretty much the epitome of an evil corporation driven by greed imo.
I've come to realize that most iPhone users (at least in my circles) don't ever update their phones. I've heard talk for YEARS in how iPhones offer many years of updates, now to realize soooo many people don't ever do it. I noticed this because the iPhone users have never updated to the newer OS that allows RCS. I asked all the time why, and I just hear over and over again they they "never updated" and don't want to be bothered by it. I have a work iPhone and can verify that at least the majority of my coworkers also never updated their work phone. Just blows my mind since I've heard this argument for so long against Android. Ok, rant over. Still using my pixel 5 from 2020. Runs perfectly. I replaced the battery once myself and that's it.
"Edit: Apple's argument is that the App Store provides a layer of security against hostile apps that can hijack the user's phone, but things like the Israeli Pegasus spyware, DROPOUTJEEP, the Italian Hermit by RCS and other MITM catchers prove that their app monopoly doesn't help against these threats." This is nonsense. Just because water does not work against all sort of fire it does not mean water is useless against fire at all. Stop being a regard.
> Apple’s argument is that the App Store provides a layer of security against hostile apps that can hijack the user’s phone, but things like the Israeli Pegasus spyware, DROPOUTJEEP, the Italian Hermit by RCS and other MITM catchers prove that their app monopoly doesn’t help against these threats. 0day vulnerabilities used in specific version of the phone, used on specific targeted VIP, that took massive companies with dozens of experts years to research and discover can’t be compared to a fully open AppStore is not gonna have thousands of malware that one average programmer can write in a weekend. Hell, I’ve seen it, I had android for a the mid to late 2010s, the plays tore was such a mess, and being the techy so many people asked me to clean out their androids of malware. One is is a rare vulnerability that is often patched before used by hackers, the other is creating a marketplace where malware can come in many forms.
they should go for it EU strong armed Apple to switching to USB-C ports & China forced them to having RCS... they got power. make all those tech giants at his inauguration come after him
Well it is speculated that j-20’s RCS is much larger than F-35 but we don’t really have data. We’ve never proven that f-35 can lock on to j-20 beyond visual range. Throw in radar jamming it is plausible that j-20 can get into visual rage and you might need to use aim-9
iOs supports RCS messages now so the texting between Androids & iPhones are much better. I've had iPhones all my life and switched to Samsung a few years ago, I'm never coming back.
Do people actually bothered to read the Google paper? It's a nothing burger. They have 105 qubits with just bellow the threshold for error correction. RCS is obviously just for benchmarking and absolutely useless by itself. You need millions of qubits for anything approaching practical that's decades of research! Don't buy into it, Quantum computing at this stage is like the Covid NFT rush.
RCS may be useless but things like quantum annealing is already meaningfully useful for getting heuristic and good approximations for NP-hard optimization problems.
I’d put some in a target fund like RCS that pays high divs, some specific high div payers like SIRI, KO, ADM, ASC, and AGI. You take a million there, average maybe 5.5% a year, you’ll have about 30k after taxes are paid to live on. Hypothetically, of course.
They finally got RCS texting so you can send a picture or a video without it looking like 5 pixels. It’s still green tho, which puts shivers down the hoes spines
Puts on Snapchat now that Apple and Android have the cross RCS shit. No reason to have it other than sending nudes, which the newer generation does. Older generation moved on to Instagram.
Apple has been raked over the coals the last few years for their monopolistic practices. There's a reason they now support RCS, have USB-C, allow the use of digital wallets other than apple wallet, or whatever tf its called, among various other things. It's not out of the kindness of their hearts they've done this. They were forced, primarily by the EU, to do these things. Microsoft is borderline. The gaming side is getting a bit bloated. The PC side there isn't much to be done there. Nvidia just has no competition. AMD said they're not competing on the top end anymore, and Intels GPUs are a joke. AMDs answeres to Nvidias flagship GPUs has always been lackluster at best anyway, but with them pulling out, Nvidia just has a full on monopoly in that area and there's nothing any government can really do about it.
I’m guessing you are aware of how WhatsApp is used in many countries outside the US. So I’m not m saying your view can’t happen but we all know that once something is entrenched it’s really hard to change from it unless the new thing replacing it is beyond believable convenient/useful/financially attractive. RCS is good but is it earth shattering convenient/useful or financially attractive to change from WhatsApp? 🤷🏾♂️
But now that iPhone supports RCS I can see it going the way of AIM and ICQ
This is what I'm held up on. At least we have RCS texting. Thought wifi calling would've worked too though. Wonder what the reasoning is behind this long severe outage
So now that iPhone gets RCS messages, some of my group chats switched over to where the name only shows one person and not that it was a group chat. I thought I was telling one of my coworkers that this other pilot, who is one of my superiors, I flew with was a f**got but it was actually in the group chat with him.
the RCS rollout on iOS 18 isn't on MVNO's yet for us poor people 
iOS 18 coming out today to bring parity with android with RCS support they still have the green bubble of shame tho 
Apple gets hate for very valid reasons though. If you're a developer, then you'll understand why they're a nightmare to deal with in order to get your app developed and published. They refused to support an OPEN STANDARD called RCS, which is literally iMessage but for everyone. Everyone but Apple uses it. Thankfully FCS put pressure on Apple so now Apple will be supporting it. That means no more SMS/MMS legacy protocol being used between Android and Apple devices. And on that point, Android users have been ostracized and scorned because they can't participate in group chats with the Apple users. The amount of girls that say, "Oh, you have an Android... why?" is enough to hate Apple more because it isn't an Android problem.. it's an Apple one... It's just an evil company so it very much deserves it. They need to get their act together.
So the reason that happens is because of Apple refusing to use the RCS protocol for messaging like everybody else or to release iMessage to anybody but themselves. It means that anybody texting between Android and iPhone defaults back to SMS which is an older standard that doesn't support "rich" texting features such as multimedia (or pictures larger than like 100 kilobytes.) The good news is that Apple finally caved and announced last year that they will be adopting RCS for iOS 18 meaning the blurred images and videos thing shouldn't be a problem anymore. The bad news is that Apple's entire mobile device identity for a period of years was based on "blue bubble vs green bubble" which made them delay this adoption by an extra 5 years or so.
Ain't here yet, but this release has RCS. once iPhone users realize their Android friend's phone cameras don't suck, iPhone's gonna hurt a bit
What I find interesting that no one is talking about is how we might see Starliner fail on reentry. I was going to make a post about this earlier today, but work got in the way and now you come along with this great explainer, I’ll just put my 2 cents in a comment: To the uninitiated: Starliner’s failures were in its RCS thrusters, which basically control how it’s oriented and the direction it’s going. They got very lucky that the failure was able to be controlled enough to dock with the ISS. I am not sure if luck will be on their side again. Not only did Starliner not originally have autonomous descent software in it, but these thrusters will also control how it reenters the atmosphere. There are a few scenarios that could happen: 1. They don’t fail again, reentry goes off without a hitch 2. They fail in such a way that causes the reentry profile to be too steep, causing it to burn up on reentry. 3. They fail in such a way that causes the reentry profile to be too shallow, causing it to take multiple orbits to slow down enough for atmospheric capture, altering its final destination and even possibly causing scenario 2 to happen. 4. They fail in such a way that causes it to crash into the ISS. This one is much less likely from the basis that NASA is even ok’ing it to undock, crashing into the ISS would not just endanger the lives of everyone on board, but also cause rifts in global geopolitics (they don’t call it the INTERNATIONAL Space Station for nothing), ain’t no way NASA is risking this. Scenario 1 is boring and does nothing for all of your puts. Scenario 2 and 3 I believe would cause a lot of panic selling. Boeing has reportedly been adamant about the astronauts using Starliner still despite these failures, and if it’s destroyed upon reentry all anyone will be talking about is “holy shit Boeing almost knowingly caused another Columbia.” Then again, I know more about rocket science than I’ll ever know about stocks, and I only know the very basics of rocket science.
It’s gotta be two things: flop of AVP (which, duh), and RCS messaging evening the playing field with google. The one thing I don’t think enough people are seeing at apple is how good their GPUs are for AI. They cook, like nvdia level performance in some cases and they just got started. Your iphone is gonna talk to you in like 1 gen.
Better late than never... USB-C + RCS, looks like Apple slowly getting with the times
Wonder why the idiots at Apple won't support RCS yet then lol... Sticking to archaic boomer tech like SMS just to stick it to Google
He's a wise man, he is using a common strategy retail investors use often called the reverse capital strategy or (RCS for short) where you buy at the very top of a market especially when its value has exponentially grown due to stable markets such as crypto and hold for just the right amount of time that said price crashes to all time lows ready for you to realise those losses into pre-tax mega gains.
It's the RCS thrusters (5) that went bad. That was the reason why they couldn't dock on time. The capsule was in a standby position, 600 feet away from the ISS, waiting. Boeing since then recovered 4 of the 5 RCS but they still have no idea what was the reason for the failure.
Pretty sure it's an apple issue with the green text. They force Samsung to use SMS instead of its usual RCS because they won't add support.
The funny thing is Apple is set to allow game streaming and RCS in thier upcoming update which were one of their main contentions.
Android/Google could have implemented RCS 15 years ago when it was debuted, but they didn’t . They tried to push whatever else over the years that didn’t work.
You should get out more, what the carriers are adopting isn't the original neutral RCS, it's a google flavor that google hosts. Lots of even google nerds aren't happy about it.
All Apple needs to do is add RCS support and then they are good.
which has been superseded by RCS which Apple refuses to implement for anti-competitive reasons. try to keep up.
I had androids my whole life till this iPhone 12. iMessage alone is worth it. If they actually do that RCS text shit or whatever it’s called it will be a game changer, like being able to send a video that doesn’t look like it’s the shittiest thing ever
>making an Android iMessage app No, just support RCS chat
Damn you caught the communists right in their tracks! RCS was the secret all along!!! /s
That's a stretch of a downplay. Look at the case of tile. Apple decided to disable API, previously available, to handicap them while allowing it for themselves in their apple tag product. Watches - same thing apis locked to other watchmakers. Apple literally puts daily hurdles for those who don't buy apple watches. User hostile design choices regarding Bluetooth connectivity. Good luck texting out of your watch because that's also reserved only for apple watches. Html 5 handicapped for developers but not Apple itself Refusing RCS to force lock in of customers Obviously the 30% commission hurts consumers The ignorant analysis is "hur dur I like apple products" when it should be how much cheaper would these products be if apple had to meaningfully compete on a level playing field.
It's not just the SMS/MMS standard that makes things shitty. It certainly doesn't help, but beyond that, Apple also purposefully sets the max file size for MMS to even lower than the already low MMS limit, resulting in videos looking like they were filmed on a potato (the quality isn't great for MMS video in general, but it looks even worse on Apple to Android texts than it does on Android to Android non-RCS texts due to Apple doing this)
Maybe, but I think the claims about messaging are the weakest part of the case. If you need end to end messaging between iPhones and Android phones you can use What’s App, which is free. I don’t see a way the government can force Apple to host messages from competitors’ phones on its platform. It’s much more likely that Apple tries to placate the Justice Department through implementation of the RCS standard.
Do you think android users are using sms to communicate with each other or something? RCS has been standard since at least 2020. Android phones only use SMS when communicating with iPhones.
Even though most the carriers are implementing the Google flavor of RCS and not the neutral one. That's why Apple has been avoiding implementing it. The carriers are literally implementing a version that Google hosts. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-to-roll-out-rcs-messaging-to-us-android-devices/
You make it sound like Apple purposely downgrade image/video quality when iOS users communicate with non iOS users. That is simply not true. People refusing to get away from the ancient SMS/MMS protocols is the real reason. Apple fully allows FB Messenger, WhatsApp and many other modern communications apps on iOS. You can drag the animal to the watering hole but if it refuses to drink, that’s not Apple’s fault. Besides, Apple already said they are supporting RCS.
Apple is implementing RCS to enable crossplatform messaging, though
Apple is already switching from SMS to RCS
And why is that Apple’s problem? Does Apple ban WhatsApp or FB messenger on iOS? In any case, all this is moot as Apple already announced months ago that they will be introducing RCS interoperability.
Android doesnt use SMS, it uses RCS, the industry standard messaging format. Apple has up until a few months ago refused to implement RCS, and instead forced SMS (an outdated messaging format) for messages to non-apple phones. Video quality being murdered is 100% apples fault for refusing to play nice. It was only until regulators starting pressuring them did they finally decide to start looking to implement RCS later this year Intentionally using an outdated system to degrade user experience to harm competitors is exactly what people are talking about.
There’s zero reason for Apple to make a messaging app for other platforms. They are adding RCS support to iPhones. That should be enough.
And Apple is going to enable compatibility with RCS but they are going to keep non iPhones as green bubbles
Apple does not sabotage android messages. Apple realized SMS was going to be a problem before anyone else cared about it and create the iMessage protocol in 2011 to enable iPhone users to better message each other and avoid SMS charges and message limits enforced by wireless carriers. RCS messaging which is the modern standard message format designed to replace SMS wasn't put into Google Messages until 2018. Apple has dragged their feet in implementing RCS compatibility into iMessage; so when communicating with an Android user the messages default to SMS hence the downgraded feature set. There are numerous third party messaging apps you can download and use on iOS such as WhatsApp and Signal. The problem is iMessage is good enough and ubiquitous enough that no one bothers to use third party apps. That said Apple has already stated they plan on adding RCS support in 2024 so I don't see how this lawsuit succeeds.
Not getting RCS was kind of shitty. But that hardly is “keeping people buying iPhones”
RCS is essentially imessage but open
And Apple has already announced RCS integration as a priority upcoming feature, so what is the problem exactly besides people just wanting to bitch and moan about Apple?
Sure, and Apple has already announced that they intend to bring RCS message integration to the stock iOS text message app in 2024. So what the fuck does the lawsuit want on that bullet point? Do they just want Apple to hand over their IP for everybody else to use? Because Apple is already in the process of integrating the industry standard for chat messaging in their platform anyways.
Apple already said RCS bubbles will be green in color.
They're adding old RCS version which will actually get outdated soon, so no green bubbles will stay. Honestly as a fullstack dev who has seen the crap one has to put to build for Safari, I'm all team DOJ here.
Fine? When iPhone users spam groupchats their messages don't come through, they get divided into individual users text condos with me, then I have to individually download them. Which doesn't work most of the time. So I use Google Messages website to manually download messages and then that barely works. None of which happens Droid2Droid. These governments can easily prove Apple is purposefully tanking iPhone to Droid texting. Apple refusing to adopt RCS until Europe spanked them is already proof.
Trains and planes existing doesn't mean car companies are allowed to have monopolies. So text alternatives existing doesn't mean Apple should be allowed to proliferate a garbage Apple to Droid texting quality that pushes Droid users to buy iPhones. I mean they purposefully nerfed their phones ability to text to Droids and then when Google came up with RCS, Apple has dragged its feet to the last possible second to implement it to protect their market share. Apple shouldn't be forced to give away iMessage shit, but they should be forced to either adopt RCS immediately or make their own system capable of smooth groupchats with Droid users. It's 2024, I have a new ass Droid and everything works except groupchats with iPhones which are bricked as shit "and Apples not doing it on purpose".
In the US, it's mainly iMessage In Latam, SE Asia and other parts of the world, WhatsApp Balkans and Eastern Europe: Viber Canada: FB Messenger China, of course WeChat They all do the same thing (WeChat is a different monster). Even Google's RCS is pretty nice.
How is RCS better? It’s not universally supported either, the gaps filled by Google as the provider through Google messaging no different than Apple. It’s not specced to be end-to-end encrypted and no provider can be trusted with their claims to encrypting your messages over this protocol. Maybe this is the real reason for the suit, parties doing the suing want easier access to your text messages.
Points two and three seem highly regarded. Cloud streaming video games is still dogshit due to latency and are people really suing over the color of their message bubble? Apple (although very late) is adding RCS support this year anyways. Never thought I’d be on Apple’s side with this but fuck this lawsuit, the DOJ just wants a backdoor into iphones. The only thing that Apple should be under real scrutiny for in this department is the inability to sideload.
Good thing we have a better, modern, universal protocol called RCS that solves that. SMS hasn't been used for years except on Apple phones alone.
SMS hasn't been a thing for awhile, everyone uses RCS except apple
Are there no apps available for iPhone that use RCS or is it just not available in the main one that everyone uses?
It’s not specced to be encrypted end-to-end. A user cannot expect any privacy using RCS - even when Google is the provider despite their claims. Universal support is not available. Google has to fill those gaps in a way that seems eerily familiar to Apple and APNS.
Apple already committed to supporting RCS this year
There's a newer open standard than SMS called RCS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services which every Android for the last few years support, but Apple obviously wants to keep people in their own ecosystem and therefore refuses to support RCS.
They do and it's one of the allegations. They refused to upgrade to the newer RCS standard so that when non iPhone users send sms the videos are super compressed and grainy. The work around is that consumers have to use a 3rd party app like Whatsapp to avoid this which has made whatsapp so popular. I also don't get you corporate simps defending such a shitty practice. Consumer rights should be first and foremost over some trillion dollar company's profits.
That's a really funny example to have chosen, because k-cups are an open standard which third parties can implement and get 100% of the same functionality. iMessage is a closed product and has a bunch of features which Apple refuses to turn into an open standard. Apple only now adopting the RCS standard is 100% a move to defend against antitrust actions, similar to Meta integrating all of their chat systems across their three platforms. Only doing it so they have more of a defense if/when the government comes knocking.
No one about iMessage. Its just an app. Just support RCS protocols and open up the api to whatever Facetime uses. The problem with this is that Apple will potentially lose customer base for people who only get an iphone to talk to other iphones. If you can do the same thing with a $300 off-brand then that becomes very attractive. Its an artificial restriction to limit choice. MSFT got nailed for the same thing in the 90s and Apple is significantly more restrictive than MS ever was.
iMessage has been a thorn in law enforcement’s side for too long. Viva la fully interceptable RCS!
The key question in these types of cases is whether the consumer is harmed. I am not sure how any of these things harm the consumer. I mean, if they want to make the Watch easier to pair with Android phones, ok, that will increase Watch sales. No one buys an iPhone just to use a Watch. Apple is adopting RCS support this year, so the argument about iMessage is moot. Allowing multiple App Stores will hurt the consumer, not help them. I don't want to be open to malware and other harmful software, nor do I want to download multiple app stores to install specific apps.
okay, tell me what was blocked and how. are you saying they invented the SMS/MMS standard? thats the problem with all of this. the folks who dont care much for apple are just as blindly devoted. would love to hear your proposals on solutions. in the mean time, just wait for RCS.
Are we really gonna rehash this whole thing? Europe just figured this one out with the DMA - yes, to prevent monopoly positions messaging needs to be interoperable. The only reason iMessage got a pass was because no one uses it in Europe. Apple announced RCS support around the same time regulators started publicly poking at their messaging monopoly - do we think that's a coincidence?
This is not the case. Android to Android doesn't have this issue so long as the messaging app being used supports RCS. Apple likes to blame Android, but it's just a marketing tactic. Fortunately, they have agreed to implement RCS this year which will fix the issue.
iPhones are absolutely NOT intuitive. You believe they are because you're so familiar with them. Every time I need to do something for loved ones on their phone for them I want to throw their iPhone across the room because nothing is where it intuitively should be. They have good consistency but how they've done some things are absolutely not even remotely intuitive. People buy iPhones because they don't want to be the only one in the friend group who can't get messages sent to them properly because Apple refuses to support internationally recognized standards. There's a reason everyone in Europe (and India) still uses WhatsApp and iPhones aren't anywhere close to as dominant there. Everyone in USA just sends regular texts so Apple not supporting RCS hurts users (including iPhone users).
I mean they haven’t done anything. They just haven’t bothered to add RCS support yet, but that’s coming later this year I think and alleviates that problem. There was beeper who had a service that allowed android phones to use iMessage, but considering that involved stuff like exploiting fake credentials it’s not surprising that got shut down
no it's sent via MMS either way. Android doesn't support imessage (because apple won't let them) and Apple doesn't support RCS (because they don't want to)
no one using android uses MMS except to send messages to iphones because Apple doesn't support RCS. So I don't see how that's an android problem
Android has gotten a lot better with this in the past few years, or at least samsung's One UI. There are a few proprietary samsung apps that I disabled and hid in a corner but that'd be the same if I had an iphone. Otherwise everything works pretty smoothly and there is some pretty basic stuff like moving the cursor around when typing that just works better on android. There's no reason Apple's imessage couldn't interface with RCS. It's shit like that that gets them their bad name. All that said, I'm not against apple, I prefer OSX to windows by a factor of 100
Sort of. Apple has flat out refused to adopt RCS for one thing. Maybe it's finally changed. But that's meant that messages had to fall back MMS / SMS. There are a lot of oddities that stem from that, like a picture will get down-scaled to MMS quality, which is BAD by modern standards. Would have looked fine on an LG Chocolate though. So yes, if you want to message cross platform with any sort of fidelity, you would have to use a third party app. But I know for me, the struggle of using WhatsApp, Kakao, Viber, Line, Messenger, or WeChat is often a battle that I wish didn't exist. iMessage is also the source of "green bubble" shaming. [https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-iphone-android-film-takeout/green-bubble-shaming](https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-iphone-android-film-takeout/green-bubble-shaming) Something Apple at least could have worked around sooner, but I suspect it was to keep people locked into or motivated to switch to Apple.
Yeah Apple is planning to roll out RCS this year I believe which would fix that issues.
It’s about damn time. Epic tried and failed. Hopefully the US government forces apples hand to open up the software. They should require adoption of RCS and require Apple to allow side loading of apps and alternative app stores no strings attached. I’m a stock holder but even I think Apple is being incredibly monopolistic.
I mean, FTC should've sued them over imessage ages ago. "Hey, what if we locked our customers out of the full suite of messaging features they paid for unless they're texting someone who also bought one of our devices?" - totally not anti consumer behavior The funniest part is they have such a grip on the us consumer market that this blatantly anti consumer bullshit is seen positively, and manufacturers like Samsung that use RCS messaging (which allows 99% of the same features and is manufacturer agnostic) are seen as somehow being "behind" for supporting open standards.