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  • Apple holds out in adopting next-generation RCS texting standard

    DangDaveDangDave
    mcdave said:
    I don’t see what this has to do with the carriers, are they trying to stay relevant?  

    Apple should just add RCS to  SMS as the fall-back option in iMessage.
    Carriers will always be relevant!

    I like your second thought of having your carrier determine whether your fall-back option is RCS or SMS. So here is the logic for iMessage users:
    1.) If you are an iPhone iMessage user and you try to chat/message a non-iMessage phone number it currently falls back to your carrier. 
    2.) Say your carrier is AT&T and you have an RCS capable phone, AT&T then checks to see if the phone number you are calling is an AT&T RCS number and if so, it will initiate a carrier chat. Apple shouldn’t care!
    3.) Eventually when AT&T successfully implements cross-carrier persistent RCS with other carriers you will be able to chat with anyone on those other carriers. Apple shouldn’t care!
    williamlondonFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • What you need to know about Apple's MagSafe Battery Pack

    DangDaveDangDave
    Here is a different perspective on buying and using Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack:

    For your every day charger do you want to buy and use the $39 MagSafe Charger or the $99 MagSafe Battery Pack for $60 more? 

    PRO 
    • If your power goes out you have the backup battery fully charged
    • If you want to take it with you just disconnect it and take it with you as with any other backup charger
    • It has reverse charging capabilities and CarPlay connectivity (Complicated but could be useful)
    However, the Apple MagSafe Battery Pack is not the best battery pack out there, and when used in the wild (not connected to power) it will only charge at 5W like many other portable chargers. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android as early as 2013

    DangDaveDangDave
    Thankfully Apple did not pursue an Android version of iMessage as Apple would then have had to host the chat services and maintain the software compatibility for hundreds of Android versions for multiple cell phone providers and carriers as they came and went. Although it did not incorporate interoperability between carriers or other providers, iMessage was based on the early specifications of RCS (aka chat) that began in 2007 and were adopted by the GSM in 2008. RCS continues to be a mixed bag of success and failures around the world. Last month Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile abandoned their cooperative interoperable RCS effort when they realized that Google has stepped up to host or dominate RCS for the Android crowd. 
    Beatswatto_cobra

  • Fatal fire at Apple supplier's factory in Shanghai kills eight

    DangDaveDangDave
    We should be asking Malcolm Owen to think before he creates misleading headlines for his articles, of course unless his intent was to stir up AppleInsider readers and posters for the fun of it?
    watto_cobra

  • New 2nd-gen Siri Remote backward compatible with older Apple TVs, available for $59

    DangDaveDangDave
    Looks good and resolves most of the criticisms. 1.) Now has IR and power button to control other devices. 2.) Now has mute button. 3.) Now has more friendly circular clickpad. 4.) Now has almost twice the depth or thickness so it’s easier to hold. 5.) Now easy to figure out the top from the bottom. 
    gregoriusmCloudTalkintmaymaclin3watto_cobraDetnator