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Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Has apple tried to work with Google on the RCS version? If not, I see everything you've written here as an invalid false equivalency

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

They haven't really. What they really should do is run their own RCS server and federate and support the e2e extension, but they don't want to.

The most annoying part is that the imessage encryption protocol is so far behind state of art (same underlying encryption protocol with small RSA keys and no deniability since ~2011 when Signal has been around since 2010 with a better protocol). Meanwhile Google based their encryption extension on the Signal production. It would be a solid security improvement if Apple adopted it.