Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?= Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:35:36 +0200 Organization: Camembert Normand au Lait Cru Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:35:36 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="2327336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:115.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/115.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wteUIYx4wufKLuiDLsG9FaM55Rk= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: de-CH, en-GB X-User-ID: eJwVysERwDAIA7CVoGAHxkko7D9C2q9OMCprOUHHYKY+qJx4D1TkMd0pHZCU+Uv3YaKNmwhdfgER/RBL Bytes: 2584 Lines: 27 Am 27.06.24 um 02:36 schrieb Carlos E.R.: > On 2024-06-27 00:33, Your Name wrote: >> If RCS is so ubiquitous and important on "all" Android phones, then the >> companies should already have RCS setup on their networks and the >> handset the user has *should* be completely irrelevant. The fact that >> these companies are now having to specifically now make changes to allow >> RCS shows it wasn't actually as all-important or widespread usage as the >> moron whiners and trolls claimed it was ... as usual.  :-\ > > You are not reading the situation correctly :-) > > The current field is controlled and tailored as the first comers > negotiated. Google and friends. Now comes a new player, Apple, > reluctantly, and wants to change the existing landscape to their liking. > Well, they will have to negotiate hard to do that. If they can convince > the existing players. > > Never mind, we will have RCS all around in a few years. It will come. > Just be patient and eat pop corn as they play out :-) RCS is is implemented and supported by almost all networks for years. Fact is: Marketshare compared to the real (crossplatform-)messengers almost nil. The arrival of Apple will not change that materially. Apple is/will be supporting RCS for strategically different reasons. -- "Manus manum lavat."