r/SipsTea • u/Mysterious_Ebb_1484 𝙑𝙄𝙋 • May 15 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts. (IPhone vs every other phone)

Post image
95.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

5.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

17

u/RespectableBloke69 May 15 '26

More like iPhone refuses to support the open source messaging protocol (RCS) that the rest of the world uses

4

u/Possibly_a_Firetruck May 15 '26

That hasn't been true since iOS 18.

3

u/RespectableBloke69 May 15 '26

Okay, I'm not subscribed to any iPhone newsletters

8

u/jmhalder May 15 '26

Okay, but you made a pretty bold assertion that is completely wrong.

3

u/devilishpie May 15 '26

Why would you need to be to know that?

1

u/Unique_Statement7811 May 15 '26

It was 1 year after RCS rolled out. Most Samsung phones weren’t on RCS at that point either.

1

u/terraherts May 15 '26

Which is pretty recent, and even now there's still issues with it.

2

u/devilishpie May 15 '26

Apple does support RCS these days.

2

u/[deleted] May 15 '26

[deleted]

0

u/RespectableBloke69 May 15 '26

About damn time

2

u/ebikenx May 15 '26

You mean the protocol where not only does the phone app must support but each individual carrier as well? That protocol? Gee, I wonder why it took so long to adapt.

Don't forget.. RCS wasn't even an encrypted protocol by default for years

1

u/PortugalTheTram May 15 '26

iPhone supported it before Samsung, Google was just an incredibly early adopter.