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Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.

Apple’s decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung. It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.

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[–] anarchrist 63 points 2 years ago (9 children)

That means google is going to open the rcs api up to other devs soon too...right? Right??

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It says in the artical they plan to use rcs the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. So I assume they won't be using Google version. Unless I'm misunderstanding it.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Samsung Messages is RCS enabled too, fyi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Only because they have some leverage over Google. It's also reliant on using Jibe. Which is where Google can get info on your social graph.

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