Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024

[Spymaster]

Fucking brilliant!

What's RCS?

 

[skyscraper101]

RCS-P-E-C-T

Find out what it means to me

 

[xenon]

Fucking brilliant!

What's RCS?

Duh, you mean you don’t know about RCS…?

 

[8ball]

Fucking brilliant!

What's RCS?

Remote-controlled submarines.

 

[Spymaster]

Remote-controlled submarines.

Rectally Conveyed Sedatives?

 

[Elpenor]

Revolutionary Communist Socialists

 

[Sasaferrato]

Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024

Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024

The blue versus green bubble debate may not be as bad.

www.theverge.com

I read half of the article, still don't know what RCS is.

 

[Raheem]

I read half of the article, still don't know what RCS is.

I read half of Murder On the Orient Express and I still don't know who the killer is.

 

[singsongfun]

Rich Communication Services - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Sasaferrato]

I do wish that they would stop fucking around with things. A very irate Mary rang me from ASDA this morning, asking why I'd ignored her texts, turned out she had WiFi on, so rather than a text she had sent messages. (Hopefully someone will understand this better than I do.). I don't have WiFi turned on on my phone normally as it eats battery unnecessarily. On putting a finger on the unsent 'texts', a box comes up asking if you want to text or use the messenger thingy. On selecting text, they all came through at once.

 

[8ball]

I read half of the article, still don't know what RCS is.

I think it basically makes the vanilla text messaging on your phone a bit more like WhatsApp (eg. being able to see when someone is typing a reply, sending fancier responses etc.).
Longer term, is likely to introduce dark marketing practices and new security risks to the world of text messaging (this may be a cynical view - ymmv).

Upside: ooh, shiny shiny.
Downsides: older / simpler devices often owned by people in the Global South will not have access. Commercial costing may become more opaque (eg. for services like when your GP sends appointment reminders). Security concerns as mentioned above.

 

[skyscraper101]

I think it basically makes the vanilla text messaging on your phone a bit more like WhatsApp (eg. being able to see when someone is typing a reply, sending fancier responses etc.).

Longer term, is likely to introduce dark marketing practices and new security risks to the world of text messaging (this may be a cynical view - ymmv).

Upside: ooh, shiny shiny.
Downsides: older / simpler devices often owned by people in the Global South will not have access. Commercial costing may become more opaque (eg. for services like when your GP sends appointment reminders). Security concerns as mentioned above.

^ Best explanation yet I think.

 

[tommers]

Rich Communication Services - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Nobody reads the fucking thread.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

SMS+ basically.

It makes traditional texting act like a chat/messenger so, WhatsApp etc and uses data/WiFi to send the messages.
The messages are also encrypted unlike in SMS.

Main issue is whether your network wants to charge you for those messages if sent over mobile data, like with old style MMS messages. I think most in the UK aren't, but don't quote me on that.

EE aren't charging me for them - it still seems to come out of my unlimited text allowance, unless they're being sent via mobile data instead which is also fine.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

my phone asks me every other day if I want to use this, from saying yes once before the answer is currently nope, dontwantit