Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.

  • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Whatsapp is using the signal protocol, which is open. So the app itself might be proprietary, but not the implementation.

    • erwan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      11 months ago

      They’re still all disconnected.

      It kills me that after going through the old messaging apps days (ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc), then a small window of hope with XMPP we’re back to disconnected messaging apps on mobile.

      Even worse: SMS is distributed. I can send an SMS to anyone in the world, even if they use an old Nokia phone on 2G with a mobile carrier I’ve never heard of. But instead of using its modern version, RCS, people are happy to hop from a proprietary service to another.