TOBY SHAPSHAK: Apple is right to avoid SMS upgrade
Google calls iMessage ‘out of date’ but proposed 14-year-old tech that nobody uses and was introduced the same year as #loadshitting started
06 October 2022 - 05:00
Apple is being arrogant for not opening up its iMessage service to the Google-backed upgrade to SMS, my colleague Duncan McLeod wrote two weeks ago.
He has a point about the arrogance (which does seem baked into Apple’s DNA) but not about Rich Communication Services (RCS), an updated version of SMS...
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