Edit: NOTE, I am the receiver of the texts.

So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end.

Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.” She is texting from her phone number using her texting app. That’s what’s going to happen.

Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone? If it’s just a messenger app why not make it available for Android?

I’d use it.

  • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
    451·
    11 months ago

    The next version of iOS should add support for RCS which should allow for cross platform larger images as well.

      • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
        376·
        11 months ago

        To be far, apple has had iMessage since 2011 and no one cared about RCS until it was adopted on Android in 2019.

        • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
          254·
          11 months ago

          To be additionally fair, Android still has phones out there in use that still dont have the RCS feature, and never will because those phones are no longer supported.

            • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
              83·
              11 months ago

              With a 5 year support cycle on iOS devices getting OS updates, ALL of the iPhones going back to 2019 (when it was added to android) will likely support RCS

              • kate@lemmy.uhhoh.comEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                i have an iphone xs (2018) that’s getting rcs, even

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          92·
          11 months ago

          Because imessage is proprietary and apple is against it being publicly available and a standard.

          • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            132·
            11 months ago

            (So are Google’s extensions to RCS)

            • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              81·
              11 months ago

              Yes but it wasn’t marketed that way. Which is why there is more interest.

              Apple has been blatantly obvious that they want it to remain proprietary and exclusively on their hardware.

              • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                4·
                11 months ago

                This is true, Google has cared less about the hardware and more about being the platform to run all of it. Not all that different than Android in that regard.

                I’m still not sure why people are so quick to jump on board though. You can degoogle Android, it’s much harder to degoogle RCS.

      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        73·
        11 months ago

        Fucking honestly - it’s the theme for their whole product line

    • Zak@lemmy.world
      14·
      11 months ago

      RCS from what I can tell still has some significant limitations, like the version common on Android having some Google proprietary extensions it’s not clear if other vendors will fully support. I’d still recommend something like Signal to most people, though RCS improves the experience for those not using that.

      • xlash123@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        It’s all a huge mess… Apple is complying with the RCS spec, but isn’t using Google’s proprietary encryption method because it’s proprietary. Google also won’t open the API on Android to allow for 3rd party RCS apps. So until Google decides to abandon their stronghold over the encryption standard and API access, RCS will continue to suck from a privacy standpoint.

        • Zak@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          I haven’t been following the RCS story closely. My impression is it’s a standard core on which each provider can tack on nonstandard extensions, and somehow carriers are involved even though it’s internet-based. It sounds like people who won’t adopt third-party internet messaging apps are going to continue to have a bad time.

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Do you mean should add RCS as in they’re expected to, or should add RCS as in “that would be wise”?

      • AlternateRoute@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        It is expected, it is already in the betas but may also require carriers to enable it as some beta testers found it wasn’t available to them initially.