IMHO, they’re getting ahead of the regulators before it gets imposed on them without contributing to the standard.
A hard cutover to present day RCS would be a giant pain in the butt and a potential experience downgrade for Macs and iPads.
Google basically controls the encryption protocol for it, and RCS still requires clients to be mapped to a phone number.
I agree with the article but I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple still decided to shut down Nothings chats anyway. It’s pretty damn cheeky how much they copied the iPhone design and now trying to get imessage as well.
Not to mention this would potentially compromise security of everyone who communicates from an iPhone to a Nothing Phone.
Not potentially, it would 100% compromise security. You have to sign in to your Apple ID on some Mac mini in a server farm somewhere that Nothing has control of.
Yeah it’s definitely compromised on the Nothing phone side but I was thinking more of the IPhone users supposedly encrypted messages being stored at Sunbird when they likely wouldn’t even know they weren’t direct.
IIRC Nothing doesn’t even have control over it, they only have a deal with Sunbird to make this work
Wow that’s even worse!
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Meanwhile Beeper, doing the exact same thing as Nothing for iMessage for several years already:
*crickets
The difference is the EU coming up quickly and nothing making it much more public than what I’ve seen from other companies like beeper
I find it odd that people care about this so much. I personally don’t know anyone who uses the default messaging on their phones for communication. My messages app is just security codes and ads.
In the United States they do
a lot of us do, especially in my country
Nobody is lmfao
Joke never made before!
https://lifehacker.com/tech/nothing-phones-imessage
Not sure how accurate this is, but I saw this article yesterday and thought I’d share for awareness
Maybe they knew it was going to happen and tried to capitalize on it.
It’s literally nothing. In fact Nothing’s announcement is nothing. It can easily be blocked by iPhone and them announcing it so is just going to encourage Apple to do so.
Is it the old tale about causation vs correlation?
If apple added RCS support like 10 years ago, this wouldn’t been a significant issue because it was well distributed and supported
As its stands now, RCS is basically Google’s crappy exploitative imessage alt that they are touting as some open standard as if they aren’t already enforcing use of google messages on android.
Not even samsung messages has full support for RCS, and they’re literally the next big OEM.
