RCS (Rich Communication Services) will bring a number of iMessage-style features to texts between Android and iPhone users. This includes things such as read receipts, typing indicators, and higher-quality images and videos.
The one thing that won't be changing, however, is the color of the messaging bubbles.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
Short primer.
RCS is something that Apple initial help fund the development of. As is usual, when a bunch of companies get to gather to create a protocol it gets bogged down my too many cooks in the kitchen. This was the case with USB 3 or USB C or whatever and why Apple developed lightning cables. It is shittier than iMessage and currently encryption only works by sending everything through Google servers lmao. It basically does everything iMessage does that normies need but came out much later and is bulkier and the roll out sucks because it is based on carrier and Google support and there's a laundry list that I don't care to type up and if you're still reading this what the frick is wrong with you.
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Why is bubble color important?
It helps us in the dating world know who is capable of making smart purchases as well as an idea on how much they will be able to contribute in the relationship. I don't mind paying for dinner but if she expects for me to provide her gum after she blows me sorry girl
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L for apple and frick them they deserve it, but frick read receipts. such a shit feature. i HATE c*nts who think they deserve my full attention the second they want it and read receipts stoke their delusional belief that theyre entitled to it.
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Read receipts feel like something that nobody asked for but that messaging apps decided needed to be pushed on us all one day just to make everyone a bit more miserable.
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every new thing has been engineered to make you miserable. you probably dont notice it anymore, but every waking moment of the average firstworlder consoomers life is centered around stimulation provided by some service, and every nuance of accomplishing that stimulation is a value proposition as far as the capital class cares, which means it "drives engagement". mmos were early pioneers in hiring psychologists to engineer positive feedback interactions with games, but im 100% convinced that every substantially large software project also works with psychologists to engineer addictive interactions in their software.
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doom
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Skill issue
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Its true do not love the world or the desires of the world because they seperate you from God the father.
We've literally designed everything to be annoying as frick not just to punish people but to humiliate them and increase teenage mood disorders
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Read receipts are great for showing people you read but don't care.
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I wish rdrama had read receipts so everyone would know when I sidevoted them.
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Can you not turn them off?
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You literally have to opt in to read receipts, idk why that guy is mad. Just don't click yes lol
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You can turn them off. Android-cels just dont check settings
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Yes
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One of my clients has read receipts turned on in Outlook. He's the only person I've ever worked with that uses them. My outlook, however, is set to never send anyone a read receipt without my permission, because I am a normal person. I bet it pisses him off that he can't tell whether I've read something or not.
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