Meet iPager - Help Apple #GetTheMessage
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Get ready for a new era in communication (again).iPager is a device that uses outdated messaging tech, like Apple uses when texting with Android. It comes wi...

I’m not a fan of the “war” between Android and Apple when it comes to SMS/texting. The rest of the world doesn’t use SMS/RCS/iMessage as much as WhatsApp and the like, so the US is pretty much lagging behind everyone else on this anyway.

That being said, I have to admit Android did a good job with this!

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not using RCS until it is available with no vendor lock-in. Call me when third-party apps like Textra can use it, and I don’t need to use Google’s relay.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Google’s relay is a requirement for carriers who don’t host their own RCS infrastructure. Google set up a fallback server because outside of a few specific carriers, nobody bothered implementing RCS in their networks. In theory your carrier could set up a server and you wouldn’t need Google at all.

      In theory apps could build an RCS implementation and take control of your RCS account, in the same way that apps could reverse engineer iMessage.