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> Apple is not going to sink (very expensive) engineer time into papering over its badness Upcoming support for RCS is arguably doing exactly that. They didn’t
by haswell 3y ago
> Apple is not going to sink (very expensive) engineer time into papering over its badness
Upcoming support for RCS is arguably doing exactly that. They didn’t seem interested until they started receiving regulatory pressure, though.
- woodruffw 3y agoRCS is not SMS; it’s a significantly easier protocol to build a smooth UX around. I’m not claiming Apple is beyond criticism here; they absolutely treat iMessage as a moat. But RCS also clearly burdened by competitive interests, including the unclear state of E2EE in RCS.
- haswell 3y agoMy point is that RCS exists essentially to “paper over the badness” of SMS. So does iMessage. And implementing support for RCS at this stage of the game is Apple investing resources in fixing their SMS problem, using an imperfect solution that was introduced to paper over the issues with SMS. Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by papering over the badness.