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.
RCS has always been an open standard.
Only Google has done the work to implement it for billions of devices, so far.
That has never prevented Apple from also implementing the standard on their devices.
https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/
@13617 @Corgana
Wonder how it is that smaller community-based chat protocols with many more features can have so many client options: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
While basic text messaging was for years only implemented by Google app.
Are you trolling or completely ignorant of the history?
Matrix, in my opinion, should not even exist. The team behind it conveniently ignored the existing standards and solutions to create an inferior product that didn’t actually offer any useful improvements.
https://xmpp.org/
@smileyhead