Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.
Pressure grows on Apple to open up iMessage::Samsung has joined Google’s campaign to force Apple to make iMessage RCS-compatible—but European regulators are more likely to get that job done.
Whatsapp is using the signal protocol, which is open. So the app itself might be proprietary, but not the implementation.
They’re still all disconnected.
It kills me that after going through the old messaging apps days (ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc), then a small window of hope with XMPP we’re back to disconnected messaging apps on mobile.
Even worse: SMS is distributed. I can send an SMS to anyone in the world, even if they use an old Nokia phone on 2G with a mobile carrier I’ve never heard of. But instead of using its modern version, RCS, people are happy to hop from a proprietary service to another.