iOS 27.3 May Expand RCS Support to Australia's Telstra in December

and then when it happened. Nobody cared.

You mean YOU don't care. RCS is life changing with messaging between iOS and Android. The only thing better would be Apple releasing imessage for Android.

Use WhatsApp like everybody else.

Who is "everybody"? I've never used WhatsApp. Never needed it. Never missed it. SMS has worked fine when iMessage wasn't available. RCS adds end-to-end encryption for message interchange with Android. Signal works fine for interoperability. WhatsApp is just another proprietary app. If you don't like iMessage because it is proprietary, why would you recommend WhatsApp which is proprietary?

RC-what?

Oh, that thing from 2023... where they, took Apple to court... and forced it... and then when it happened. Nobody cared.

ignorant

Use WhatsApp like everybody else.

It's rapidly gaining share in USA as well. iMessage is totally unheard of outside USA whereas absolutely everybody uses WhatsApp. And yet iPhone retention is extremely high.

Lots of carriers do not seem to support RCS at all. I think it's time for European Comission to step in and issue a 15 billion EUR fine...to Apple of course.

RCS is dead. New features are introduced at a glacial pace. It's designed by a committee which means that everybody, the carriers, device OEMs, telecom infra providers and so on have to agree. Deploying new features is incredibly complicated and slow, whereas Meta etc. do not need this kind of process. They control everything.

Designed by committee is how you kill innovation and the ability to compete against proprietary platforms. You just can't do consumer stuff like this.

im not losing sleep over it, but whatsapp being owned by meta is one reason why i prefer to use something else if its available

Use WhatsApp like everybody else.

It's rapidly gaining share in USA as well. iMessage is totally unheard of outside USA whereas absolutely everybody uses WhatsApp. And yet iPhone retention is extremely high.

Lots of carriers do not seem to support RCS at all. I think it's time for European Comission to step in and issue a 15 billion EUR fine...to Apple of course.

RCS is dead. New features are introduced at a glacial pace. It's designed by a committee which means that everybody, the carriers, device OEMs, telecom infra providers and so on have to agree. Deploying new features is incredibly complicated and slow, whereas Meta etc. do not need this kind of process. They control everything.

Designed by committee is how you kill innovation and the ability to compete against proprietary platforms. You just can't do consumer stuff like this.

One reason why not use Whatspp: Meta.

I do hope it’ll available here in Denmark by 27.3 too. The biggest carrier (TDC) here in Denmark stated it would be available by the end of the year. Since it isn’t included in 27.2 it has to be 27.3.