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iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18

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It's that time of year again, folks. As the tech world has sights set on the latest Apple event that is producing the new iPhone 16 as we speak, we all know we'll be seeing slightly improved phones, some impressive specs, and a few 'innovative" or "magic" new features from Apple. For me, however, th...

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iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18

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As a GrapheneOS user, It would be nice if they made it available to their android platforms first.
- RCS is not the future it's just a WhatsApp like app included inside the messages app. Google servers, closed source, centralized....
- It does work on GrapheneOS, but you need to have Google Play Services installed.
  
  Google blocked it.
  https://9to5google.com/2024/02/29/google-messages-rcs-rooted/
- ALL my android buds (all 3 of them) would talk about RCS as the future, better than iMessage, proof that Apple is terrible for not having it and adding it.
  So anyways my iPhone has RCS now and none of their androids do. Shocker.
  
  Every android that has Google Play services has RCS, they just need Google Messages to use it.

They should have used something like the Matrix or Signal protocol, some open standard, as opposed to RCS, which you can only use on Android with two proprietary apps - Google and Samsung Messages.
- RCS is the new MMS. It's the official "text message" replacement.
  It's shit and until the standard becomes not shit, messages between Android and iMessage are still going to suck. Almost all the stuff people think is RCS are the proprietary Google extensions that only work through Google's servers.
  But they're supporting it because it's the next iteration of "texting" carrier wise.
- Yeah, I would love to stop getting potato quality videos on MMS, but not enough to install a proprietary app. I'll just have to create matrix accounts for more people.

Welcome to the party apple, we see you're purposefully wayyy late yet again.
- Not only do they have RCS, but they finally got USB-C across the iPhone 16 lineup!
  
  Forced by EU! Thanks again, EU.
  
  They switched to USB-C last year with the iPhone 15.
- I do not use any google products or services and would prefer not to have any of their shit on my phone, but at least I can send decent videos and pics to my friends who refuse to download signal now
- Literally no one cares about RCS.
  
  Not entirely true… the American Android users care about it; Apple users will still default to the superior iMessage as opposed to the inconsistent carrier dependant RCS; rest of the world will use geo-preferred third party messaging app that also offer consistent experience between carriers.
  “Buy your mom an iPhone” people.
  
  They do in the US, and you're getting downvoted because of US defaultism.
  But on a global scale, you're right.
  
  I care, I can finally wifi text iPhone users who won't use signal or even discord
  
  aww. does apple being forced to allow the newest messaging standard hurt you?

The fact that iPhones are getting this before Android phones without Google Play Services tells you all you need to know about the nature of RCS. Android has lost all of its intrigue and fun in favor of becoming GoogleOS

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