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From: Alan Browne <singularity@blackhole.org>
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Subject: Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:35:44 -0400
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On 2024-06-25 10:56, Gelato wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:51:06 -0400, Alan Browne wrote:
> 
>>> Of course, there's still time for more carriers to work on enabling RCS
>>> support on the iPhone by September, when iOS 18 will be available to the
>>> public. But at the same time, this means that most beta users probably
>>> won't be able to test the new feature.
>>
>> It is getting tight to the mid-Sept drop of new IOS'.
>>
>> Having to get carriers to update their systems is an added complexity
>> and carriers don't have huge incentive to implement it.  Possibly they
>> see it as more load.
> 
> Once Apple supports RCS & after the carriers support their iOS RCS bundles,
> what problems will be solved when RCS is finally working on both platforms?

Hopefully the problem of transparently sending large files from(to) iOS 
to(from) Android with little effort or loss.  Hopefully avoiding the 
"phone" paradigm along the way.  And of course the whole encryption 
issue also needs to be worked out so that it is not Google oriented.

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