I never thought I’d see this day. I thought we’d get aliens on the White House lawn before Apple ever caved.
I hope it works seamlessly but, more importantly, will the bubbles all be blue once RCS is added? Will we be able to turn off read receipts and typing indicators?
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People in the EU be like: “We don’t care at all because we use WhatsApp, but…you’re welcome guys.”
Same in India lol. I use an iPhone and almost never use iMessage, even when chatting with my “iFriends”.
Yeah it’s confusing why people would still use text in North America. That would be a bigger concern to me than the color of a bubble.
I feel like Apple still isn’t interested in real interoperability. Even if RCS integration solves picture/video and some basic messaging feature compatibility, that won’t be the end of it. Some other feature that gets less attention today will be the next most visible with poor compatibility.
Compatibility issues will continue if EU regulation (or the threat of it) is the only thing driving cooperation. Apple’s marketing-driven platform lock-in is incompatible with platform-agnostic cooperation that society wants, and only they can change that.
Some other feature that gets less attention today
Nobody cares and you can’t even name one.
Well,. like any company really,… Apple wants to stay competitive and work to ensure their own in-house solutions work better (or have better features).
I think Apple has a pretty good position to stay ahead of this game. They’ve done very well over the past 10 to 20 years fleshing-out the integration (overall) of their entire ecosystem,. to the point where it has a lot of upsides (to people who use it).
If you’re already deep into the Apple ecosystem,… them adding RCS support likely isn’t going to drastically change much for you.
A significant part of Apple’s marketing strategy is:… “Hey,. if you have 1 Apple device (say, an iPhone) and you’re thinking about buying a 2nd Apple device (MacBook, AppleTV, AppleWatch, etc),… they all work seamlessly together”
Those “Ecosystem advantages”… are kind of Apple’s thing. No amount of “forced interoperability” is likely to change that. (IE = any User who is already in Apple Ecosystem… is unlikely to say “Hey… now I can over-ride all the defaults !”
Windows and Android fanboys notice stuff like this. Apple fans generally don’t care.
pretty sure it’s confirmed messages from other platforms will still be green through RCS
Heaven’s forbid
The color only matters to people who I would prefer not being in a group chat with anyway. Getting proper read receipts and videos that don’t look like they passed through a dog is what actually matters.
I assume there will be a third colour for us with RCS to differentiate from those still using old school SMS/MMS. I have older relatives who have Android phones and never turned on their chat services so they come up light blue on Google Messages just like iPhone users do. Not the dark blue that RCS users do.
No, apple says that It will stay green
People in many countries that are not in North America tend to use some form of messaging app anyway. WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Threema and lots more. WhatsApp is widely used in Europe
Never heard of Signal. What makes it better?
It’s made by a former WhatsApp co-founder and another person after Facebook bought it. It’s meant to be a WhatsApp replacement with more privacy. The original WhatsApp founders had a vision of having a free messaging service with no ads or no selling your data but struggled to keep WhatsApp running without much revenue. Therefore, when Facebook offered them 19 billion dollars, they couldn’t resist it and gave in as they had also promised to keep their app’s vision the same but of course they didn’t.
Yep. The whole green/blue message stuff is so alien to me. That people refuse to move from iMessage to another app if someone else doesn’t have an iPhone, how people at school and wherever else get shunned because they don’t have an iPhone. The way the whole coloured messages work so that you can tell who’s on an iPhone.
How iPhones are often used as some kind of status symbol in a way no other phone manufacturer does. The same can probably be said for Apple and their stuff and marketing in general has always rubbed me up the wrong way. People say “my iPhone” but no one ever says “my Samsung” or any other make of phone.
Fucking Apple, honestly. Pisses me off like few other things in the world.
As someone that doesn’t live in the US, it will make no difference to me at all. I can’t recall the last time I sent an SMS, and I only ever get them for things like bank authorisation. Here EVERYONE uses Whatsapp
I like it. Idc about the color of the text. Just work properly
Don’t really care tbh. I think most people have adapted without it. i don’t even use it on my Samsung because Verizon doesn’t allow rcs on Samsung messages. I prefer Samsung messages over google messages.
Samsung Messages supports it now, does it not work on your phone?
You’ll get the basic features everyone wants. High res videos and photos, typing indicators, reactions, read receipts, and that’s about where I think it will stop
Meh 🤷🏾♂️
Holy shit do people actually care about the text bubble colors even you have RCS functions? We’re doomed as a species.
In North America, yes. There are tons of people who refuse to date other people if they have an android phone. A study was conducted and people with iPhone were 4x more likely to get a date after texting the other person.
North America is The Good Place.
Also it’s a great way to filter out vile people anyway.
Not possible for young people Iphone has over 90% market share in this age group. This is even happening in china and South Korea the only countries with android OEMs left
more importantly, will the bubbles all be blue once RCS is added?
who the fuck cares about the color of the bubble lmao.
Will this fix the problem where once an Android is added to the group, nobody else can be added?
Except it can. What’s stopping Android users from simply creating RCS groups that doesn’t care about iMessage?
If Apple users can’t convert iMessage to RCS, that’s on them.
Sorry I don’t really know how that works, how do RCS groups differ from regular text group chats?
They will adopt the RCS spec, and are lobbying to upgrade it with some of the things Google’s proprietary version adds.
Those bubbles will definitely still be green lol
idc