It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • PxtlEnglish
    1398·
    9 months ago

    Okay, Samsung is the party with some credibility here. It’s a lot harder to hear Google whine about messaging standards when their churn in messaging has been hilarious and embarrassing.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1292·
      9 months ago

      I’ve lost track of all the messaging apps they had:

      • Hangouts
      • Chat
      • Gmail Chat
      • Google+
      • Voice

      I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.worldEnglish
      303·
      9 months ago

      Samsung has 0 credibility here because they just use Google messages and Google’s Jibe implementation of RCS.

      If Google drops Jibe for something else, it means Samsung is as well.

      RCS isn’t really a standard anymore either. Once Google put out their own proprietary Jibe implementation, everyone just adopted that instead of putting in the work to implement it themselves. All the carriers in the US use Jibe as their RCS backend, and Samsung moved to using Google Messages as their default messenger. And all RCS messages go through Google servers.

      If Google decides to do something else and drop Jibe, like they have with every other messaging service they have had, that’s it for RCS.

    • MrSpArkleEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      Samsung’s record on RCS isn’t great. Their Samsung Messages app didn’t work across networks for most of last year. Like RCS only worked on t-mobile, but only for t-mobile branded phones, and for some time they couldn’t send to AT&T. Not sure if Google Messages was much better during that time period.