Apple gets the message, RCS coming to iPhone in 2024 with same Universal Profile as Android

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Apple gets the message, RCS coming to iPhone in 2024 with same Universal Profile as Android
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It's happening!!!

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What is rcs?

RCS is like sms2.0, it supports better group chats, larger higher quality file transfers, read receipts... That sorta thing

Google got jealous of iMessage and remade iMessage, but Android with the promise of making it more open.

They haven't followed through on 'more open' until just now.

Rcs officially works on 2 apps. iMessage still has just 1.

But hopefully Rcs will actually become open in the future. Allowing anyone to make an Rcs app, like they can with SMS

That doesn't answer my question at all.

It's a protocol that implements modern text messaging features for sms, similar to imessage on ios. Since nobody has used sms since the nineties it's probably useless for most of us but it's interesting to see what tech giants fight about.

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