Quick tldr on RCS: It's a richer form of text reliant on cellphone companies and carriers to come together and agree upon standarts (hence it taking thousands of years to implement). This is why we have iMessage, the superior form of texting for those who make competent purchases with their NEET bux and wagie dollardos. It does nothing of note that iMessage didn't do but is instead actually a downgrade in nearly every way except when communicating with green bubble r-slurs, and even then facebook messenger from 5 years ago is still somehow better.
As someone who has family who knows they can easily send me a video on FB Messenger but still sends it to me through SMS, I've been waiting so long for this.
I'm an apple guy and enabled it hoping to improve texts with my android contacts. Turns out half of them don't have RCS enabled on their side. Dammit!
Sadly that's been my experience as well.
That being said, I think a few of them are due to them using texting apps that are downloaded from the play store which don't have RCS built in since as far as I'm aware, Google still hasn't opened up the API access to RCS service.
Here we see the true Android experience. Getting a "upgrade" that your users don't even have turned on by default, or turned off themselves because they're literally dumb.
Just updated my wife's iPhone to 18 and strangely I can't send her RCS messages even though she can send them to me. I'm on a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Has anyone else experienced this?
Edit - a group chat with my wife and parents was updated, but not the individual chat.
I'm having this issue right now but it does show up on my computer which is weird.
Yeah maybe in a few hours my phone will catch up. On existing rcs chats I have the option to force sms/MMS but no fancy options on existing iPhone chats yet unfortunately.
Maybe RCS was actually broken on Android's and Apple got the implementation right? It's just no one used it cause it sucked lmao. "Maybe in a few hours my phone will catch up" = sitting the the cuck chair waiting for a text
The fact we have to rely on carriers to implement RCS is embarrassing. It should have been designed to be carrier/device agnostic.
I wonder why iMessage was made over a decade ago
Has anyone tried this in the wild and found it lacking? I've been trying it with someone on iphone who updated to ios 18 and while it shows it's RCS, there's no typing indicator and read receipt still just says it was delivered, but not read
I played around with it between me and my wife's iPhone (Both on T-Mobile). Here's what we found:
The bad
It took a few texts before it worked properly. Not sure what happened there, but the first few she sent me just never came through. After that it seemed fine
Replying to a message didn't show properly on the iPhone
Custom reactions didn't show properly
Some of the more complex messaging options from iPhone obviously didn't work. She used an "Echo" and it just read "(sent with Echo)"
The good
We see typing indicators
Pictures / Videos worked very well
General reactions seemed to work well
Overall
It's still a little janky. It's better than it was, but still feels kind of second class. I can probably kill the custom slack that we've used for the last couple of years I guess.
What's hilarious is I've told all my friends to get on iOS 18 and half of them came back saying "nah I'm not gonna update cause it'll brick my old phone, you know how Apple is." Just can't win lmao
This is Stockholm Syndrome mentality. Jesus Christ. If people can't trust their phone maker not to frick up their phone with an update, they should look at other options
If you're iToddler friends say this it means they have a group chat making fun of you
Now if Google would just let all Android users use RCS instead of just some.
How about if Google added it to their own darn product? Why have they given up on Google Voice?
Oh I did forget to mention that not all Androids even have RCS
RCS is forever going to be stuck at better than SMS, worse than everything else because it's being brokered by Google and phone carriers.
Interesting thing of note is that weirdos are obsessed with Read Text. I don't get the appeal of obsessively checking to make sure a text was read and then waiting in the cuck chair hoping to get an instant reply while you creepily imagine every scenario that person is doing instead of replying to you asking what they want for dinner only to find out some mundane thing and then repeating it ad nausea cause you're an r-slur who can't live without other... I don't know where I am going with this. Read Text if for cute twinks and I'll never turn it on
Do you have read text on or off?
Also if you use an Android be sure to check out https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-se for your next phone purchase
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I have read text on because I want scrotes to know I'm ignoring them deliberately.
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I like having reads on because i dont have to reply.
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???
iMessage is owned by apple and therefore r-slurred
Only actual window lickers would think a proprietary functionality like iMessage limited to only the worst company in tech is somehow superior to an identical functionality that can be and is leased to whoever wants to use it.
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Green bubble detected
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I should hope so
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It's literally superior to whatever garbage produces your green bubbles.
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lol
lmao even
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I bet you use IRC lol
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the bash.org shit from the 90s? wtf?
I bet you watch ads
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The only time I see ads on a phone is when I use my friends Samsung.
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Your phones literally have undeletable bloatware
Inb4 spergout about doing virgin codecel shit to delete them
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apple literally pushes updates to slow your phones down on purpose
are you r-slurred. you must be, cause there are no non-r-slurred apple enjoyers after 2020
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This cuck country has whatsapp as the standard for everything
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RCS? r-slurred commie shit? really cuck'd simps? rented chinese sluts?
it was probably explained in the thread but i only read the title.
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I don't know about any of that shit, I just write stuff and hit send
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Read receipts are a mistake, and add a whole level of immidiacy to texting that as a lifelong android user Ive been blissfully ignorant of until I learner that there are iPhone users that use that feature and its very annoying. If you need or want an immidiate response to a text you should probably say that, or something that implies urgency.
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the read reciept thing is a top reason i never switched to iphone. I also hate read reciepts in emails and always reject them and dont read the email when people do that shit. Like who the frick do you think you are deborah?!
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Physical read receipts (certified mail) are expensive and are generally only ever used when someone has a legal duty to tell you something.
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another reason not to like them
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You can just turn off.
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My iToddler device is trying to tell you something.
I meant to say that you can turn IT off. Read receipts a can be disabled globally and re enabled individually.
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If only there was some way that you could use your cell phone to contact someone and get an immediate response. Someone should probably work on that, I imagine it would be a popular feature.
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I've run into cheapo MVNOs like Mint with it disabled.
Haven't run into people with it disabled at the app level.
Definitely an Android moment though, completely disparate platforms of various versions on different networks that turns into a guessing game of support.
People not updating their iPhones is so annoying.
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Wow android apple wars how cool you people are literally fricking use whatever phone u got and shut
If I see another nerd throwing some r-slurred acronyms at me with smug face I am going to kick em in the balls
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ITS 2009 ALL OVER AGAIN
ARE YOU TEAM SONY, TEAM NINTENDO, OR TEAM MICROSOFT
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Until they add it to Voice, I can't use it.
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I have read receipts on because I want everyone to know that my time is valuable and that they shouldn't bother me with their bullshit.
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I don't have a single person who is not on Telegram
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lol is that C++? Wait are you binding that with Python?! Imagine using those over Rust. As a proud Rustacean and Ferris the Crab adorer, I regret to inform you that your taste in languages sucks. This is sad. You can do better. You know how easy package and dependancy management is with Cargo? Not to mention you don't even need a Makefile. It's great. Dynamically typed languages need to die. There's no other option. They just do. If you like dynamic typing, you need some help. Seriously. By using a dynamically typed and interpreted language (which means its @#*!&!@ slow!!!), you are committing genocide and harming the environment more than gas cars. Rust is fast and uses clean, renewable energy through the magic of being a language compiled with LLVM. Tired of memory bugs? You should be. Shame on you for still having them when Rust exists. Tired of being bad? Time to go to Rust. Tired of being slow because you're not smart and your friends laugh at you? Rust is quite speedy indeed (all thanks to the big brain of the compiler). Tired of not getting off the normal way? Match statements, loops, and the compiler for Rust give the best orgasms 10/10 (completely legit). Not to mention the superiority you get to feel when you show off your superior Rust code to your inferior "friends" still using some other language. Want to get rid of malware? Rust is safe, therefore malware is noware (also completely legit). You quite honestly will forget about any other language (including English because it's slow and unsafe). You even get to add the Rust Book and its brothers to your Bible collection alongside the Arch and Gentoo Wikis. All hail Rust. TempleOS pales in religious comparison to the faith of Rustaceans. Graydon Hoare is Jesus. Amen.
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Turns out half of them don't have RCS enabled on their side. Dammit!:
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Lots of carriers don't support RCS.:
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What's hilarious is I've told all my friends to get on iOS 18:
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Now if Google would just let all Android users use RCS instead of just some.:
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And I can't use it on Android because I won't use the Google Messages app. If only it could be an open standard...:
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