Apple's treatment of iMessage for Android app Beeper Mini triggers bipartisan call for competition investigation

[iMore.com]

Senators and US Representatives have written to the Department of Justice demanding an investigation in Apple's treatment of the Beeper Mini app on Android.

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[kiniku]

10-15 years ago, most phones were using SMS for text messaging. So, Apple decided to develop its own secure method for its customers. While Android cheerfully used SMS for at least a decade until about 4 years ago, and they (finally) implemented RCS.
So why is Apple seen as the criminal here? And now Apple has announced they will ALSO implement RCS.

"I don't like not being blue!" Waah!

 

[Iconoclysm]

10-15 years ago, most phones were using SMS for text messaging. So, Apple decided to develop its own secure method for its customers. While Android cheerfully used SMS for at least a decade until about 4 years ago, and they (finally) implemented RCS.
So why is Apple seen as the criminal here? And now Apple has announced they will ALSO implement RCS.

"I don't like not being blue!" Waah!

And Android/Google does not get the credit for implementing RCS either...

 

[naddy69]

"I don't like not being blue!" Waah!"

Android users are literally green with envy.

 

[SvenJ]

10-15 years ago, most phones were using SMS for text messaging. So, Apple decided to develop its own secure method for its customers. While Android cheerfully used SMS for at least a decade until about 4 years ago, and they (finally) implemented RCS.
So why is Apple seen as the criminal here? And now Apple has announced they will ALSO implement RCS.

"I don't like not being blue!" Waah!

What people are forgetting is that, while Google has taken the core of RCS, they have patched and extended it way beyond the GSM standard. The standard doesn't even yet support encryption. The standard version Apple is implementing won't support any of the enhancements Google has developed, unless, Google turns all those over to the standards organization and they are adopted as part of it.

 

[Wotchered]

What people are forgetting is that, while Google has taken the core of RCS, they have patched and extended it way beyond the GSM standard. The standard doesn't even yet support encryption. The standard version Apple is implementing won't support any of the enhancements Google has developed, unless, Google turns all those over to the standards organization and they are adopted as part of it.

makes me smile

 

[Lee_Bo]

I say let Beeper use the Apple servers, but their chat bubbles are to remain green.

 

[Ledsteplin]

I wonder how many Android users have switched to iPhone just for blue bubbles?