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  • RCS is still half-baked, and Apple has no reason to adopt it

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    sbdude said:
    So what I glean from all the single-posters, refutations, and articles is that there is no "industry standard" RCS, if there is a "standard" then it's google's and it must be run through google's servers, if I want e2ee if has to be through google's servers, e2ee is only for one-on-one conversations only, and the carriers have forked the hell out of RCS. So tell me, which part of this do I willingly want to be involved in?

    Also, enough with the green chat bubble bullying thing; in the words of Richard Nixon's Head: "Put down your crack pipes and beer bongs and pay attention" to your kids.

    Personally I am good with whatever can be done to make texting with a non iPhone user less of a shitty experience. Sending a video or anything animated is reduced to the lowest resolution humanly possible. When I send a link to You Tube or a website to a mixed conversation its just a dead grey link, rather than the nice looking thumbnail to alert the other party what I am sending them... web links,pics and GIFS work in the flow of a conversation and with a mixed, or single android conversation that isn't possible.



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  • Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS

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    avon b7 said:
    JP234 said:
    Note to Android: Put on your big boy pants and develop a platform people want. Give up the doomed attempt to get Apple to cram your flaws into iOS.
    Android users don't give a hoot about any of this. The world uses Whatsapp and all issues vanish. If anything it is iOS users who end up changing app. 
    If someone sends a message from whatsapp to iMessage it's the same result? Reduced functionality and a green bubble? No?

    pscooter63watto_cobra

  • Android amps up campaign to push Apple into adopting RCS

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    newtonrj said:
    Why not see Apple release iMessage as an Android app?  It would leave SMS/MMS to Android users, bring blue-bubble to both sides of the user views and give true E2EE for all users.  Secure and assured delivery.  The answer to me is that iMessage is a product lock-in for the iOS ecosystem.  But counterpoint, so was Apple-Music which is now available in Android.  -RJ
    Apple music doesn't need the encryption or security that iMessage does. You can send cash to people via iMessage as well as a ton of personal info. I see what you are saying, but the two aren't comparable.

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  • Facebook is fine when punishing others financially, but cries when others do it to them

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    JP234 said:
    Skeptical said:
    God I hate Facebook and Zuckerbag. Not really a big fan of Apple either. Neither are your friends but Apple is the devil you know. 
    Comparing a company that makes something (the best products and services in the world), with a company that derives 100% of its revenue from mining customers' data to sell to advertisers is a questionable conflation.
    Two large companies that care nothing about you unless they are making money from you, as either the customer or the product? I think it's a perfectly reasonable comparison.

    We need to stop defending Apple as if they are our friends..they aren't. We enjoy their products and the service they offer as part of being a customer, additionally if you are a stock holder you enjoy the dividends as well B) .. that's it.

    JP234williamlondonTRAG

  • Apple purchased gold from supplier linked to illegal mining in Brazil

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    Paul_B said:
    How on God's given Earth can mining be illegal.  You see land, you dig.  "YOU can't swim in the ocean" - said nobody.
    The mining operations allegedly took place on Brazilian indigenous lands in the Amazon rainforest, which is prohibited in Brazil. Resource extraction is banned because it leads to deforestation and contaminates rivers with mercury.


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