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iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18
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They should have used something like the Matrix or Signal protocol, some open standard, as opposed to RCS, which you can only use on Android with two proprietary apps - Google and Samsung Messages.
RCS is the new MMS. It's the official "text message" replacement.
It's shit and until the standard becomes not shit, messages between Android and iMessage are still going to suck. Almost all the stuff people think is RCS are the proprietary Google extensions that only work through Google's servers.
But they're supporting it because it's the next iteration of "texting" carrier wise.
Yeah, I would love to stop getting potato quality videos on MMS, but not enough to install a proprietary app. I'll just have to create matrix accounts for more people.