Google appears to be working on an editing feature for the Messages app. The feature is hiding in the latest beta.

This sounds like a nice step towards modernizing texting, but it’s a shame that Messages doesn’t have an open RCS API to encourage broad adoption across messaging apps.

  • FutileRecipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    will only hurt their attempts to make Apple interoperate…this will only hurt adoption on the long run.

    Any interoperating from Apple will be minimal and begrudging, at best. Google should not hold themselves/their tech and their users back for the distant hope that Apple will be cooperative (because Apple won’t regardless).

    That said, Google really should open up the API.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        Ans yet Apple expects all others to to just accept what they want or Apple walls off everything. It goes both ways, Apple doesn’t get to control everything.

          • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Have you looked into running your own RCS server or connecting to existing RCS servers? As far as I can tell, it’s proprietary infrastructure built on top of an open standard.

            RCS just lets the servers talk to each other, and there is no reference implementation for a server. On the off chance that you do manage to write your own implementation, it’s unlikely that Google or Samsung’s servers would be willing to talk to yours unless you’re a telecom.

        • null@slrpnk.netEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          They don’t expect (or often even allow) others to adopt their standards though, which is the point being made here.