Verizon is also switching to Android Messages as default for RCS

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Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default

It’s a big milestone for Google.

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Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default​

The app encrypts group chats now, too.​

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Aug 8, 2023, 3:21 PM EDT

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge

RCS messages in Google’s Messages app will now be fully end-to-end-encrypted by default, Google announced on Tuesday. It’s a major change that keeps messages private from Google and the carriers, and it marks a big milestone in Google’s ongoing efforts with RCS.

Alongside Tuesday’s announcement, Google announced that group chats in Messages are now end-to-end encrypted as well. Google had promised last year that the upgrade was on the way. The company first started rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one messages in late 2020.

Google has been pushing RCS for a very long time, especially as a way to compete with Apple’s iMessage and blue bubbles. For a long time, iMessage’s end-to-end encryption for all chats was a big differentiator over Google Messages, so it’s nice that Google Messages will finally offer parity on that front.

Beyond end-to-end encryption, RCS offers a handful of great improvements to messaging over standard SMS, including typing indicators, read receipts, and the ability to share high-resolution photos and videos. But despite Google’s best efforts, Apple still hasn’t adopted RCS — if it did, texting between Android devices and iPhones would probably be a lot better. Instead, Apple would really prefer that you just buy an iPhone.

 

[bnew]

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

It’s all about the bubbles.

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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple​

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In a new video, the world’s largest Android manufacturer asks ‘What did green ever do to them?’​

By Jon Porter, a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.

Oct 10, 2023, 4:07 AM EDT|228 Comments / 228 New



Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

The video, titled “Green bubbles and blue bubbles want to be together,” shows a Romeo and Juliet-style conversation between two users who want to be together, but who are kept apart by one of their “parents.”
“What did green ever do to them? We’re bubbles too,” one of them asks.

Related​

• RCS: What it is and why you might want it
• Google taunts Apple again over its lack of RCS messaging support
• Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default
• Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’

The “bubbles,” of course, are a reference to Apple’s iMessage interface which shows feature-rich blue bubbles for messages sent between Apple users, and discordant green SMS bubbles with reduced functionality when Android users participate in the chat. This two-class system is especially frustrating in countries like the US where about half the population is using an iPhone and the other half is running Android on a Samsung device.

Apple, of course, has every incentive keep the status quo as a form of ecosystem lock-in, but it might be forced to open up its messaging service as a result of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Regulators are currently investigating whether iMessage meets the bar to be considered a “core platform service” under the rules, which would compel Apple to offer interoperability with other messaging services.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

 

[CashmereThoughts]

whats crazy is google had gtalk since 2005 and had they included it with every android device by default and supported the SIP protocol like they said they would, iMessage wouldn't have been such a big deal when it debuted.

Missed opportunity.

Sidekicks were popular because of the messaging client (aim), blackberry had BBM. iMessage IMO is what made iOS ubiquitous in the U.S.

 

[Black Mamba]

Green fukking babble

 

[staticshock]

What the fukk does any of this mean

 

[Scottie Drippin]

What the fukk does any of this mean

There used to be a legitimate reason Android and Apple phones couldn't use all the best features in communication with each other - now the reason is Apple just decided they don't want to to. However, they're probably going to be forced to by Europe soon.

 

[Black Mamba]

There used to be a legitimate reason Android and Apple phones couldn't use all the best features in communication with each other - now the reason is Apple just decided they don't want to to. However, they're probably going to be forced to by Europe soon.

They better not cave europe can go fukk themselves
Dog shyt ass EU iPhone wasn’t created by them they can suck a dikk

 

[Remote]

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

It’s all about the bubbles.

www.theverge.com

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple​

/

In a new video, the world’s largest Android manufacturer asks ‘What did green ever do to them?’​

By Jon Porter, a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards.

Oct 10, 2023, 4:07 AM EDT|228 Comments / 228 New



Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

The video, titled “Green bubbles and blue bubbles want to be together,” shows a Romeo and Juliet-style conversation between two users who want to be together, but who are kept apart by one of their “parents.”
“What did green ever do to them? We’re bubbles too,” one of them asks.

Related​

• RCS: What it is and why you might want it
• Google taunts Apple again over its lack of RCS messaging support
• Google Messages now encrypts RCS conversations by default
• Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’

The “bubbles,” of course, are a reference to Apple’s iMessage interface which shows feature-rich blue bubbles for messages sent between Apple users, and discordant green SMS bubbles with reduced functionality when Android users participate in the chat. This two-class system is especially frustrating in countries like the US where about half the population is using an iPhone and the other half is running Android on a Samsung device.

Apple, of course, has every incentive keep the status quo as a form of ecosystem lock-in, but it might be forced to open up its messaging service as a result of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Regulators are currently investigating whether iMessage meets the bar to be considered a “core platform service” under the rules, which would compel Apple to offer interoperability with other messaging services.

Europe should absolutely force Apple to adopt RCS.

Apple needs to be stopped with their proprietary bullshyt. It’s in their DNA going back to their computers that people couldn’t even repair on their own.

And it has ALWAYS been bad for consumers.

 

[bnew]

They better not cave europe can go fukk themselves
Dog shyt ass EU iPhone wasn’t created by them they can suck a dikk

why the animosity towards interoperability?

did you know the government had to force phone companies to connect calls between each others customers? before that ma bell customers couldn't call anybody else who wasn't a ma bell customer.

 

[Black Mamba]

why the animosity towards interoperability?

did you know the government had to force phone companies to connect calls between each others customers? before that ma bell customers couldn't call anybody else who wasn't a ma bell customer.

fukk the eu fukk android they can go eat a dikk.
You comparing apple and oranges now.
God damn green bubble babble

 

[Captain Crunch]

There used to be a legitimate reason Android and Apple phones couldn't use all the best features in communication with each other - now the reason is Apple just decided they don't want to to. However, they're probably going to be forced to by Europe soon.

,
Hopefully, we’ll be able to video chat btwn apple and android w/o clicking a ft link or a third party app(google meet, ig, WhatsApp)

 

[Mike809]

who even text these days ? Don't most people talk on social media or whatsapp?