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I wonder if this will lead to a reversal on supporting RCS, as I feel it was motivated to keep regulators at bay and now that iMessage is found to be exempt I d
by no_wizard 3y ago
I wonder if this will lead to a reversal on supporting RCS, as I feel it was motivated to keep regulators at bay and now that iMessage is found to be exempt I don’t know if Apple has any incentive to follow through
- ComputerGuru 3y agoApple doesn't care about deliverability as a moat. RCS won't moot the blue bubbles so they have no reason not to implement it.
- tsunamifury 3y agoAs someone who is intimately familiar with this, iMessage in America has been considered the strongest sales moat of the iPhone of all for years.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI don't dispute any of that. Read what I wrote again.
- kmeisthax 3y agoRCS is there to head off further antitrust laws (e.g. in the US) that might force them to open up their messaging platform. Announcing RCS and then canning it the moment they head off one jurisdiction's first attempt at a law would be counterproductive.
- lxgr 3y agoI think they'll still implement it. RCS is a bad enough protocol to not present a real alternative to iMessage while allowing Apple to truthfully claim that they're supporting the thing that Google has been pointing to for message interoperability all these years.
- sircastor 3y agoThey're still trying to hold off regulation in the rest of the world, and the DMA only applies to European Union markets.