Does RCS include video sharing? Probably not 🤧 guess I’ll still have to deal with iPhone users sending me 64 pixels wide videos with no sound, and me not being able to send them video without the same happening.
No direct support (in Google Messages), but I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple piggybacked on your iCloud account to share links to such things. A similar thing can be done with Google Photos.
I’ve sent videos in Google Messages to others (e2ee RCS) and they’ve arrived in a good enough quality, definitely better than MMS at least. I’ve not shared media over standard RCS though, so unsure if that implementation is different…
Somebody wanna check the temperature in Hell real quick?
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Oh man it truly did freeze over. Are the pigs flying yet?
Fuck.
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Oh hell yeah now I get to fart in my friends faces without being physically present
That explains why I just saw a flying pig outside
Cool, when will Google add it to Google Voice FFS?
Exactly
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association,” an Apple spokesperson tells 9to5Mac.
RCS will instead replace SMS and MMS and “exist separately from iMessage when available.” Apple didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment.
The change likely comes in response to regulatory pressure from the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a rule that requires major companies, such as Apple, to make their services interoperable with other platforms.
Companies like Google and Samsung have long pushed for Apple to add support for RCS with splashy marketing campaigns and videos.
Earlier this month, Google sent a letter to the European Commission that argues iMessage should be considered a core platform service under the DMA.
Apple may not be doing this out of its own willingness, but the addition of RCS is a more than welcome change — especially for all of us who have had to deal with receiving poor-quality videos sent from iPhones to Androids (and vice versa), along with a patchwork of other missing features that make it less appealing to text between devices.
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Isn’t this the technology that allows google/att to look at and analize all my texts? Why would anyone want this?
They can already look at your texts when using SMS/MMS, which is what the messages app uses when chatting with non-imessage users. SMS is known to be insecure.
‘The’ messages app? You know you can install any SMS app you want and don’t have to (and really shouldn’t) keep any Google app on your phone?
The person you’re replying to is talking about the Messages app on iPhone.
Oh, I see. I thought they were referring to the Google messages app as the ‘messages’ app.
SMS, the entire protocol, is not secure. It doesn’t matter what app you’re downloading.
RCS doesn’t have to go through Google’s servers - carriers - or I guess Apple - could set up a gateway
@HeartyBeast @stefano @Haphazard9479 Google put up their own because the carriers botched the rollout. The carriers were very fast to deploy MMS servers because they could charge by the picture. Now that they no longer can do that, they were in no hurry to do the upgrade.
Using Pixel phones, RCS is pretty nice. You do get the three step confirmation (sent, received, read) and end to end encryption.
Hopefully Apple will implement the encryption.
Hopefully Apple will implement the encryption.
Apple said they are going to implement the open standard so no. Encrypted RCS is proprietary to Google.
Finally, Apple says it will work with the GSMA members on ways to further improve the RCS protocol. This particularly includes improving the security and encryption of RCS messages. Apple also told 9to5Mac that it will not use any sort of proprietary end-to-end encryption on top of RCS. Its focus is on improving the RCS standard itself.
Apple is going to use their weight to get the carriers to improve RCS itself, including adding encryption, so that they drop Google’s proprietary implementation.
It would behoove Google to use the open standard since they’ve pushed for Apple to adopt RCS for so long.
And if the carriers actually start supporting it properly, there’s no need for Google to run it’s own proprietary version. Plus, proprietary encryption protocols are always less secure than the widely tested open standards.
@RGB3x3 @Earthwormjim91 Yes, google needs to put the encryption into the open standard ASAP, and then push Apple if they don’t quickly implement it. I have pixel devices and like RCS. Looking forward to being able to RCS text everyone.
