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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.android,uk.telecom.mobile
Subject: Re: Encryption comes to RCS at last on iPhones.
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:16:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:05:38 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote :


> She solved it by using RCS.

Yup. That's how Andy solved his MMS cost problem, even as WhatsApp is how I
solved the blurry video problem. Both methods require the iPhone owner to
wake up and turn on their brain (which is hard for herd animals to do).

What's interesting in terms of Apple's long sordid history of not caring
about its devices working in the real world, is that "something" changed at
Apple HQ in Cupertino to make Apple, all of a sudden, care about
interoperability.

It's not that Apple cared to work in they real world since almost
everything Apple does not work in the real world - so it's something else.

But what? After all these years of NOT working in the real world... 
What made Apple finally decide for its messaging to work in the real world?