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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (6 children)

MKBHD closed this topic for me forever. Apple is never going to open up. It provides them tremendous value. They don’t give a shit if Samsung taunts them lol. They want your teenage kids taunting their friends over their green bubbles. And it’s working.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Only happens in Muricaland. In every other countries I visited, WhatsApp rules.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    WhatsApp is also addressed in that video.

    It’s great in countries where it is so dominant that it is everyone’s default. (That’s not everywhere except America, BTW)

    Anywhere it’s not 80%+ dominant already, you are stuck trying to convince everyone and their grandma to switch their message app and that just doesn’t work.

    Plus… more Facebook on my phone? No thanks. I’m not saying any other company is an angel but Facebook is known to be the devil.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Even when WhatsApp is dominant it's not a solution.

    Everyone being forced to use a walled garden messaging app owned by a Big Tech so the can communicate with friends and family is not a solution.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Yep. I never use sms nor other messaging systems save for WhatsApp. Not that I'm a fan of it since it was bought by Facebook, but it is what everybody here uses, and it works quite well, reliably, and has an interesting set of features.

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