It's that time of year again, folks. As the tech world has sights set on the latest Apple event that is producing the new iPhone 16 as we speak, we all know we'll be seeing slightly improved phones, some impressive specs, and a few 'innovative" or "magic" new features from Apple. For me, however, the...
  • Michal@programming.devEnglish
    151·
    2 months ago

    Lol, the ios users will still be subjected to the eye-fucking shade of green when chatting with android users. Apple sure loves to mess with their users.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I find the green just fine! It’s my favorite color. I’m just happy I’ll be able to send high quality videos to my Android friends who refuse to download signal!

      • Michal@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Are you using the default shade of green, or did you enable higher contrast setting in accessibility? I hear it helps with readability.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Default, I’ll check that out! I’ve never cared about the colors of the text bubbles myself, but a deeper green would be pretty cool.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    1220·
    2 months ago

    RCS is the wrong one to use, since it is not an open enough standard for there to be a single FOSS RCS app on Android. Something like Matrix or the Signal protocol would be better.

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      204·
      2 months ago

      Seriously? Matrix and signal already exists… So you can use them today instead of RCS to your heart’s desire.

      • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        2 months ago

        I think they mean it more as it’s not only gonna be Google but Apple who are going to be shoving RCS down their throats of people wether they want it or not by shipping it as default.

        On the other hand, the era when corporations cared even the tiniest bit for open standards in instant messaging was gone long ago. Now all instant messaging is a complete mess, we users have to deal with a myriad of apps and protocols that in the end are doing the same thing for the sake of “privacy”, and RCS will not fix that. Nor Signal, truth be told.

        I yearn the glory days of multi-protocol IM apps like Pidgin and Trident on Android (though +IM seems to still be a thing) - when you could use whatever you wanted without “missing features” or risking to be banned.

          • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, no. Pretty bad argument.

            When you buy a phone you know it will have calls and SMS - it’s what you bought the phone in the first place. You bought them because of that. RCS is still just a fancy alternative.

            Barring that, the EU’s DMA is forcing the most important chat apps to interoperate at the very least, though full support (including calling and such) isn’t mandatory until somewhere in 2027.

            And you’re missing the point again - a company doing a multi IM service app, like Beeper Mini, is not the same that a group of volunteers doing a multi service IM app, like Pidgin. They’re still going to be closed source and they will not guarantee to give support for platforms people need. Beeper mini on desktop? Beeper mini on Linux/BSD? Forget it.

    • evoEnglish
      62·
      2 months ago

      RCS is the wrong one to use

      For you. I have relatives with iPhones I don’t talk to frequently but when we get together and somebody takes a group photo it’s annoying. Being able to just text a decent resolution photo without people needing to download an app is a win.

      I’ll continue to use Signal with friends and family I talk to regularly.

      • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        43·
        2 months ago

        This right here. I have to have my mom send videos of the grandkids to my work iPhone because my personal Android received them heavily pixelated and compressed.

      • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        2 months ago

        If Apple implemented the Matrix or Signal protocol it would still work the same way for you, while not forcing other Android users to use on Google or Samsung’s proprietary apps, those being the only options for RCS.

        • evoEnglish
          42·
          2 months ago

          Huh? No it wouldn’t. If Apple implemented the Signal protocol they would still have to publish an iMessage app to the Play Store for Android users.

          Call Google’s messaging app proprietary all you want but at least their implementation of RCS is E2E encrypted.

          • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
            25·
            2 months ago

            If it used the Signal protocol any app that used that protocol which is open, could interact with it, that is the point. Whereas RCS is a closed protocol, just one that happens to also be interoperable with Google Messages, but not any other third party apps that people might want to make.

            To be honest, I’m a bit surprised that on Lemmy people are so against open standards and FOSS apps.

            • evoEnglish
              6·
              2 months ago

              That’s not how it works. Other apps (ironically including Google’s RCS implementation) use the Signal Protocol. Simply using it doesn’t magically make your app interoperable with every other app that uses it. And Apple would be the last company to go out of their way to make it work.

              Nobody here is against open standards or FOSS apps. I am actually lucky/privileged enough to be able to write open source code for a living.

              You seem to not understand the reality of the situation and that use case other than yours exist.

  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    233·
    2 months ago
    1. why an ios article on c/android, 2) why RCS? SMS was a good system for what it did, so does that automatically create an obligation to mess it up?
    • L3s@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      172·
      2 months ago

      1. Most Android phones use RCS, so it’s on-subject here since most of us don’t pay attention to iPhone news - and is welcomed news because of #2’s answer

      2. You ever been in a low or no signal area, but have wifi, and try to text an iPhone user? Ever try to send/receive photos/videos with an iPhone and they look like garbage? Tired of getting SMS’s in group chats of “Mom loved ‘Please poop in the toilet next time, we are tired of cleaning it up’” instead of it just “hearting” the SMS message? A lot of new tech coming out today started from something that “was good” and was built on to make it better.

      • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        The thing about SMS is that it sometimes worked in low signal situations where voice and internet didn’t get through. That is a virtue that shouldn’t be given up easily. If anything its reliability should be enhanced. It’s fine to also support a fancier chat scheme as well, but a robust, 1-to-1 text-only mode is important.

        • L3s@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Right, I haven’t seen any of them say they are doing away with SMS. Even Android who has RCS in place also has SMS along side it, RCS is just an enhancement.

          Even with RCS on both major platforms in the near future, a lot of automations and companies will continue to utilize SMS, and I’d bet that’s true for a long time.

          • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Ah ok. I only use SMS in very basic ways, so if it’s going to stay around then I’m glad. Thanks.

        • Ironfacebuster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          At least with Google messages, you can still send normal SMS if your RCS chat can’t go through. I think there’s an option for it to automatically resend as SMS if RCS fails, too.

          I guess there’s no way of knowing if SMS will eventually drop out of fashion, but it would be good to keep around so it probably will stay around as a back up

          Edit: well, I didn’t see the other response say basically what I said, oops

      • FlorianSimonEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’ve had to turn off RCS because, when you don’t have WiFi/great cellular data access, you can’t do shit. I couldn’t even open the messages app.