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Subject: Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:35:36 +0200
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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."