RCS - Vamos ver um futuro sem WhatsApp?

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Google and major European carriers ask the EU to make iMessage a core platform service

Google has rallied the support of top European carriers to send a letter to the European Commission, asking it to designate Apple's iMessage as a "core platform service". This would force Apple to make iMessage compatible with RCS like WhatsApp and Google Messages by March 2024.

Per a Financial Times report, Google, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, and Orange are behind the request.

Here's some background on the issue. In August, the EU entered its Digital Markets Act (DMA) into force to ensure a higher degree of competition in the EU digital market by regulating the power of larger companies. The regulation refers to large entities as gatekeepers - large digital platforms with over 45 million active users in the EU and €7.5 billion annual revenue. If Apple's iMessage is found as such a platform, Apple would have to make it cross-compatible with other messaging platforms by March 2024. But Apple has argued that iMessage doesn't have 45 million active users in the EU and thus doesn't meet the criteria.

Google and the top European carriers argue that iMessage meets the Digital Markets Act's criteria, and want the European Commission to require Apple to open it for interoperation with other messaging apps. The EU's regulatory authority is investigating iMessage under the assumption that it contributes to Apple's revenue indirectly.

The decision will be made by February 2024, and if iMessage is deemed a core service, Apple would need to end the whole green-bubble-blue-bubble problem in the EU once and for all.

 

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Belisquem-se porque vem aí bomba (finalmente!):

Apple anuncia suporte para RCS no iOS em 2024

Apple finally caves, announces plan to bring RCS to iPhones in 2024​

The color of chat bubbles is extremely important to people in the US for some reason. Blue is good, green is poor - or something like that, right? We don't know, we're from Europe, and over here people have WhatsApp and Telegram and Facebook Messenger. But in the US, bubbles matter.

And they will continue to, unfortunately, even with today's groundbreaking announcement from Apple. The company finally caved and revealed that it plans to adopt RCS in iOS from next year. RCS, as you may know, is the iMessage-like standard that works on top of SMS.

But, importantly, it's not iMessage. Apple will integrate RCS into iPhones, but iMessage will still exist and, while it hasn't outright stated it, we're willing to bet that messages sent via RCS will still get green bubbles.

Here's what an Apple spokesperson told 9to5Mac:

Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association. We believe RCS Universal Profile will offer a better interoperability experience when compared to SMS or MMS. This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users.

RCS will bring many iMessage-like features to cross-platform messaging between iPhones and Androids: read receipts, typing indicators, high quality image and video sharing, location sharing, the works.

And in the end it still won't matter, because the bubbles will continue to be green. So it will all be for Nothing - which, interestingly, will still present you with the only way to get blue bubbles from an Android device with its recently unveiled Nothing Chats.

via GSMArena

 

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finalmente!

 

[chrispy]

é uma excelente notícia a Apple suportar RCS. Não percebo é porque é que continuam a falar das blue messages vs grew messages, visto que o problema era a falta de features e não propriamente a cor em si.

Com a inclusão de RCS e no futuro a tecnologia de segurança, o básico de mensagens modernas fica assegurado.

agora fica a faltar apenas interoperbilidade entre os vários serviços