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Stop pretending Nothing's iMessage app had anything to do with RCS on the iPhone (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's less about the bubble and more than group texts and multimedia are notoriously botched between Android and iOS. The color of the bubble tells Apple users that they should expect a worse experience.

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Yeah once the bubbles turn green I know I am limited to MMS, so texting goes from stickers, effects, videos and image galleries to the quality of texting on a Motorola RAZR. Half of the joke about the color of the bubbles is that the green bubble people are either ignorant of or disregard the improvements in texting for the last decade. RCS I haven't used extensively, but it has mostly felt like MMS without mime and size restrictions with the added bonus of allowing Google to access the messages.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Half of the joke about the color of the bubbles is that the green bubble people are either ignorant of or disregard the improvements in texting for the last decade.

    No, the joke is that people keep paying absured amounts of money for apple products while thinking that it was the other people who were ignorant of or disregarding said advancements, when in reality it was Apple refusing to let anyone else implement those advancements in a way that worked between platforms, and it was Apple refusing to implement anyone else's version of those advancements.

    That's the real joke.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    RCS is not compatible with all androids, the only manufacturer I can think of that opened their builtin messaging system to everyone was BlackBerry after much request. Their system became just another messaging app since the pins were no longer tied to the Blackberry user. In either event how did apple refuse anything? Other manufacturer’s just never bothered to seriously implement anything similar. Besides what do you consider an absurd amount of money? Because an iPhone SE 2022 is often $150 in the US for prepaid (no contract) service and gets you into their ecosystem with pretty powerful hardware.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    i mean, i can do all that via RCS.

    So you are saying "apple has crippled my texting, but i blame anyone other than apple". Half of the joke about the color of the bubbles is that the blue bubble people are either ignorant of or disregard the improvements in texting for the last decade.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This isn’t a limitation on android devices, this is a limitation imposed by apple because they want the experience to be bad.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It was a limitation for Android for a decade after iMessage came out because they spent the whole time half assing RCS. It’s only been like two years tops that I reliably receive RCS messages from Android to Android.

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