bala1234

Tim Cook shouldn't have said it. But considering the kind of stuff Elon Musk and some others get away with stock price altering nonsense quotes it seems like overkill.

Ughh.. entrenched parties on all sides. Rest of us have only two choices
1. Get some popcorn and watch things play out or
2. Ignore it and wait for the dust to settle down (my preferred)

citpeks said:

Apple said that it would be implementing RCS based on the GSMA's standards, and working with it (not Google) to add encryption to the standard.

Not using Google's extension, which, as it stands, is how it's being achieved.

To be fair I don't think the lack of a standard is on account of a lack of effort by google. Its just how the carriers operate. But Apple has had better luck in pushing the carriers than Google so I am hopeful!

chasm said:

Apple and Google adopting the (improved) future RCS standard will be great news for everyone, since it will improve security when Apple and Android devices “talk” as well as bringing media sharing up to par across platforms and apps. Hopefully WhatsApp and others will adopt it as well, as seems likely.

I predict that Android users’ messages will still be an unattractive colour on iMessage, but at least for once they’ll be safe and we won’t have to worry about what info we’re sending those people.  

I don't think encryption part of what Apple promised at least initially...

Apple is well within its rights and probably even justified in doing this (if they are) to discourage future cases like this. But now that Beeper has given up and seemingly everyone's got the message May be its time to deescalate. I mean the Mac owners are legit Apple customers even if not iPhone customers...