IMHO, they’re getting ahead of the regulators before it gets imposed on them without contributing to the standard.

A hard cutover to present day RCS would be a giant pain in the butt and a potential experience downgrade for Macs and iPads.

Google basically controls the encryption protocol for it, and RCS still requires clients to be mapped to a phone number.

I agree with the article but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple still decided to shut down Nothings chats anyway. It's pretty damn cheeky how much they copied the iPhone design and now trying to get imessage as well.

Not to mention this would potentially compromise security of everyone who communicates from an iPhone to a Nothing Phone.

It definitely has nothing to do with Nothing. They are just using this to get attention. It's pathetic really.

They are probably struggling for sales of their overpriced weird looking devices and needed some way to remind people they still exist

If you're considering the Nothing 2, I advise you to rather look at the OnePlus 11, a far superior phone at a similar price. Especially on black Friday

RCS won't change the bubble colour though?

RCS is just a newer standard isn't it? Replacing sms? But iMessage isn't sms or RCS.

It's like on signal, prior to them fucking it, when someone sent an sms it would come in as normal and a signal message would be encrypted.

Meanwhile Beeper, doing the exact same thing as Nothing for iMessage for several years already:

*crickets

Nobody is lmfao

It's literally nothing. In fact Nothing's announcement is nothing. It can easily be blocked by iPhone and them announcing it so is just going to encourage Apple to do so.

Maybe they knew it was going to happen and tried to capitalize on it.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/nothing-phones-imessage

Not sure how accurate this is, but I saw this article yesterday and thought I'd share for awareness

Is it the old tale about causation vs correlation?

I find it odd that people care about this so much. I personally don’t know anyone who uses the default messaging on their phones for communication. My messages app is just security codes and ads.