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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple
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this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2023
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Can you show media produced by Apple that encourages bullying?
People on iMessage don’t like “green bubbles” because a number of features are missing — real-time location sharing, message thread replies, high quality media, games directly in iMessage. Some, but not all, of this is fixed in RCS.
Google could try solving this with a unified messaging app of their own, but they’ve failed to build a cohesive product around this without getting bored, and Samsung would inevitably try to build and run their own for no good reason, fracturing the Android community.
Before Samsung starts trying to throw stones, they ought to look at their house first. They’re doing more to fracture Android than Apple ever could. To my knowledge, their object tracking tags won’t interoperate with Google’s service. They push two app stores on phones. They push their own separate tap-payment ecosystem, Samsung Pay.
It’s more than green/blue bubble stuff though. There are a lot of features that end up being useful in chats.
It would be nice if Apple released iMessage as an app for Android to end this nonsense. Apple wouldn’t even have to open up iMessage.
Sure, but then people wouldn't need to buy an iPhone to get iMessage, and that would be bad for Tim
While I agree with most of what you said (about Google and Samsung), Apple is pretty clearly encouraging the stigma when it comes to iMessage. They wouldn't outright tell people to bully, but they are doing as much in an underhanded way.
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/07/tim-cook-explains-why-apple-refuses-to-adopt-rcs-buy-your-mom-an-iphone/
[2] https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-accessibility-guidelines-6785172eb343
[3] https://www.thurrott.com/apple/248931/apple-didnt-bring-imessage-to-android-because-of-its-lock-in-strategy
That's some head-empty logic.
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