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Why does Apple insist on supporting bullying with the blue/green bubbles? (www.npr.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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This is the worst part about Apple. I support apple at my work but it gets harder and harder to hear my daughters talk about the bullying on text groups.

WTF is wrong with Apple?

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, but proprietary methods encourage fragmentation. Id rather they build on a universal standard that gets updated once in a while. If apple were to open up iMessage, I'd be on board. But not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    RCS dates back to 2007/2008 when it was still called lots of other names. (E.g. Joyn) And since then, not many cell providers adopted it. For all other providers (and those still sitting on an old version of RCS), communication will happen via Google-servers. It basically is a proprietary service under the disguise of a public standard. Especially because of this I’d rather use “proprietary” encrypted chats with it, so Google doesn’t get a copy of all my texts.

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