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.

  • Pratai@lemmy.caEnglish
    612·
    9 months ago

    Do you think the problem lies with Apple, or the idiot kids that somehow created a hierarchy around a text bubble color?

    And let’s face it- if you owned/ran a company that was making fuck-tons of money because idiot kids rallied around exclusive text bubble colors, you’d want to keep that going as well. Don’t even try lying about it.

    • jasondj@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      It’s not just the bubble color. The bubble color means it will be more difficult to exchange photos/videos (they get sent in MMS and compressed to hell) or use stickers/reactions properly.

        • TJA!@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Or just don’t use iMessage for texting. Every other messaging app has these features and is free and usable on every smartphone

        • elint@programming.devEnglish
          31·
          9 months ago

          SMS isold and shitty, but its supported on every phone model. Apple stacked iMessage on top of it for rich media when both endpoints support iMessage. android and others stacked RCS on top of SMS for the same rich media purposes. When incompatible devices communicate (iOS<->non-iOS), they fall back to crappy SMS. You’re saying you like the separate-system status quo and if you want to communicate with one group or the other (iOS or non-iOS), switch devices. We’re saying why can’t we all just have one rich-media format that works for everybody?" I don’t care if Apple switches to RCS or opens up full-featured iMessage to everybody. I just want to be able to talk to all my friends without us having to buy the same hardware. Are you just being intentionally obtuse?

        • jasondj@ttrpg.networkEnglish
          13·
          9 months ago

          I have an iPhone, and the primary reason why is because 90% of my friends and family will not adopt another app for messaging. Why should they when literally everyone else they communicate with can take iMessages?

          But when everyone is passing around photos and videos, the one person who greatly prefers open-standards gets (and sends) potato quality.

          And that is really Apples “fault”. Not really, though, because it’s not an accident that they have an amazing messaging platform that is the system default and just so happens to be proprietary. And as such they have no incentive to fix it, because it will only lead to people like me leaving iPhone.

      • Pratai@lemmy.caEnglish
        210·
        9 months ago

        No, they’re not. They didn’t make the kids rally around bubble colors. They didn’t create the hierarchy. Nor did they create any enticements or reward those that used it. It just happened. Not doing anything to stop it isn’t exploiting it.

        And expecting any company to cater to the stupidity of its or it’s competitor’s user base is fucking ignorant.

        As I said- you k ow damn well you’d do the exact same thing about it- which is nothing. And collect tons of cash.

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          9 months ago

          As I said- you k ow damn well you’d do the exact same thing about it- which is nothing. And collect tons of cash.

          No I would make it available to everyone in a fuckin’ heartbeat because I’m not a scumbag but maybe that’s why I’m not a CEO.