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Breaking Down Apple's 2024 Adoption of Rich Communication Services (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Google of course wanted everyone to use their profile on their servers...

Not exactly; they spent years trying to herd the carriers into doing RCS the GSM way. They only shifted to the iMessage-like strategy when the carriers couldn't get their act together. They reached a "Fine, I'll do it myself" moment, and suddenly, finally, the ball really started rolling for RCS.