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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2023
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This public shaming bullshit reminds me of Epic's Fortnite debacle and it's not a good look, especially from Samsung who usually mocks Apple on Monday and is copying them by Friday (see "no CD drives in laptops" or "no headphone jack" or "no removable batteries in the phone"). I know they're completely different issues but whining is whining.
There's truth in this, but in the meantime, these small moments are huge and the alternative is that they are gone entirely in our monopolistic, fixed slice of capitalism. Enjoy the small bit of competition we still actually see. Agree that Google/ Samsung are ultimately disappointing but on balance, better than the walled garden, hyper inflated pricing and big-buttoned toddler interfaces of iOS
I don't have to guess your position based on your language but I do want you to understand that some of us like the walled garden. There's a lot of shit out there that I don't have to deal with and don't want to have to.
You like ease of functionality you would still have that. RCS is a protocol not an app.
Like how email is a protocol. Or hell, Lemmy.
You can use whatever message client you want and that can still be iMessage it's just now it will operate as a protocol rather than just being Apple proprietary stuff. You'll have exactly the same functionality because practically everything that iMessage currently does RCS already has it in it plus some stuff that it doesn't have, typing notifications, read receipts, support for large file sizes, link previewing, automatic iCal (again the protocol not the app) integration, location sharing, even live stream support. You lose nothing by RCS been added to iMessage.