It’s all about the bubbles.

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.

  • jerjajjijerj@kbin.social
    324·
    1 year ago

    Apple will never listen, but maybe the EU could decide it’s important enough issue for them to force it. It’s starting to feel like we should just go to them, first. I’d like to imagine we have another candidate problem for regulation enforced fixing, with Mac laptops’ long-standing displayport multistream problem. Macs will only mirror and never extend to an nth monitor over displayport splitting … but the availability of thunderbolt adapters as a workaround takes some of the “oomph” out of that argument. That one’s been around like ten or more years.

    The other issue alluded to by another commenter, though, is that rcs is not low-level in Android os quite like SMS is. Like the API to get the information into other competing apps is not there, so it seems a little bit hypocritical.

    • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      The EU could have had an effect on it via the DMA, but it seems that not many people use iMessage in the EU. People use Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger way more here, so those are forced into opening up.

      iMessage message bubble colors seem to be an US problem.

      • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        Most people complaining about imessage are people who bought Android devices. In places where imessage use is prevalent, people with iphones tend to leave their android owning friends out of group chats and complain about their text bubble color being green if they text an android phone.

          • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            I haven’t said anything about the EU. There’s no way the EU would address this, it’s almost exclusively a US problem.

              • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                Oh, I see the problem. You seem to have forgotten that you wrote:

                Maybe don’t buy Apple hardware?

                I was responding to your point. You appeared to be arguing that this was a problem that could just be solved by just buying a different phone. I was saying that the people complaining are already the ones buying different phones.

        • Duranie@lemmy.filmEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          Someone leaves me out of a group chat due to the color of my text bubble, I doubt there was any benefit to being included in the conversation anyway.

          • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Well they aren’t leaving you out because of the color of the text bubble. It’s because having a phone that isn’t an iPhone in the group causes it to fallback to using MMS instead of imessage. They lose a lot of the features that iPhone users love about imessage and the quality of shared images and video is much worse. The moment someone tries to share a video and everyone just gets a blurry smudge of pixels is the moment all the iPhone users get their own group together.