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MMS is also used by Apple iPhone devices when sending group messages, images and media to non-Apple users. This functionality will now probably break, especiall

by izacus 5y ago

MMS is also used by Apple iPhone devices when sending group messages, images and media to non-Apple users. This functionality will now probably break, especially since Apple refuses to implement RCS protocol which would make cross-phone brand messaging comparable to iMessage itself.

pmontra 5y ago
How about switching to one or more among Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger etc? Basically it's what everybody does in Europe. I'm getting SMSes only from banks, credit card companies and (sadly) 2FA. MMS, maybe one in the last 20 years because they used to be insanely expensive.
sbuk 5y ago
> Apple refuses to implement RCS protocol… And rightfully so. Apple supporting it won’t help the folks in Switzerland because Swisscom don’t support it. And why would they? They are clearly simplifying (cost saving) the stack. RCS is a poorly designed protocol with little to no carrier support outside of the US.
- joenathanone 5y ago
  Chicken meet egg.
  - sbuk 5y ago
    I’d say not. Bad protocol that cost the carriers to use and no customer wants to pay for meet commercial reality would be more accurate.
- akvadrako 5y ago
  Swisscom does support RCS https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Telephony-Knowledge-Base/RCS-introducing-the-future-of-SMS-Message/ta-p/612475 https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Telephony-Knowledge-Base/RC...