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Subject: Re: How to Enable RCS on iPhone with iOS 18 & iMessage vs RCS Key
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:48:40 -0700
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On 2024-09-23 06:53, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> On 23.09.24 05:10, Andrew wrote:
>> How to Enable RCS on iPhone with iOS 18
>> https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-enable-rcs-messaging-on-iphone-to-text-android-users-3482571/#2
>>
>> Fundamentally iMessage is an internet-based service that delivers your
>> messages via Apple's servers which means it doesn't work most of the time
>> unless you have all the myriad requirements (and which is why most of the
>> world shuns Apple devices as only working in the richest countries).
>>
>> RCS, on the other hand, is a carrier-based service and works everywhere the
>> carrier supports it (without needing the net just to do anything useful).
>>
>> In other words, if you want it to work, don't use the Apple walled garden.
>>
>> Worse, the article explains that Apple (again!) murdered privacy, saying:
>>   "Apple warns that user identifiers are exchanged for your carrier
>>    and their partners to authenticate your device and provide a
>>    connection for RCS messaging. "These identifiers could include
>>    but are not limited to your IMEI, IMSI, current IP address,
>>    and phone number. Your current IP address might also be shared
>>    with other RCS users," the company notes."
> 
> Nobody needs such inferior "carrier services".
> iPhone user prefer iMsg with the beautiful dark blue bubbles or another
> messenger service but certainly not such crap like RCS which breaks all
> encryptions or even doesn't have any.
> 
> *LOL*
> 
> 

And carrier services will not suffice.

RCS REQUIRES internet access.