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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:15:57 -0800
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On 2024-12-17 23:22, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> On 18.12.24 01:15, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2024-12-18 00:36, Arno Welzel wrote:
>>> Jörg Lorenz, 2024-12-17 16:58:
>>>
>>>> On 17.12.24 15:08, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-12-17 07:19, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
>>>>>> Avoid to use RCS!
>>>>>
>>>>> If an iPhone is involved. It's fine on Android. The article you posted
>>>>> says so.
>>>>
>>>> You do not understand what happens.
>>>> RCS is Google's wet dream. Nobody needs it or wants it.
>>>
>>> RCS works fine - much better than MMS ever was. Google just added a
>>> proprietary encryption to it.
>>
>> Proprietary, maybe, but they did not block Apple from using it. It was
>> Apple who decided not even to try using it. Ok, it is not an standard,
>> but it exists, it is there, ready to use. Just use, then agree into an
>> standard, and implement it next.
> 
> That is naive. Proprietary and encryption are a contradiction.
> And you do not seem to understand the powerplay of big tech.
> 
> 

No. Proprietary and encryption are NOT a contradiction.

Don't argue from false positions.