tehabe

davidw said:

tehabe said:

mjtomlin said:

tehabe said:

Of course it is a standard, it has been a standard since it first appeared, even before iMessage was a thing. RCS is just the successor of MMS and SMS, not supporting it is a mistake. Also RCS could be the way to create interoperability between messengers. But Apple was never really good in accepting outside feedback.

Yes, but Google's version is not a standard version of RCS, it is an extension of RCS. Which is what they're pushing Apple to adopt.

Google is the new Microsoft when it comes to standards; "Embrace, Extend, Exterminate"

Source for that, Android Messages uses the RCS Universal Profile, if iOS would support this profile it would be able to sent and receive RCS messages, they would be like SMS and MMS messages, with the ability to also sent photos and other things. At the same time, Apple can remove the MMS support. The end to end encryption Google introduced is based on the Signal protocol, so also available for Apple to implement. The only reason Apple doesn't implement it is probably the same why it doesn't support Opus in an Ogg container or fixes the FLAC support for Music. And it is just a fact, iMessage is meaningless for me. I haven't received a single iMessage message so far.

The RCS Universal Profile is a standard that was developed by the  GSMA Group with the help of Google. Google got involve because of their acquisition of Jibe Mobile. Jibe Mobile was helping the GSMA Group roll out a standard RCS to the carriers. The GSMA Group got involved after many years of the carriers trying to establish a standard RCS protocol that would work across all carriers network and failing to.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/blog/techflash/2015/10/google-buys-jibe-mobile-to-upgrade-androids-mobile.html

https://realtimecommunication.wordpress.com/tag/rcs-up/

>It is worthwhile to mention that Google is playing an important role because it bought Jibe – one of a few useful RCS clients, and has developed a universal Android client based on the GSMA RCS UP.<

https://ccm.net/news/27213-google-partners-with-gsma-for-rcs

>In a move announced by the GSMA this week, Google and the GSMA are working together for a text message makeover.<

Google did not just adopt the GSMA Group RCS Universal Profile standards, they played a major part in helping the GSMA Group come up with the standards.