The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires that “gatekeepers” not favor their own systems or limit third parties from interoperating within them. Gatekeepers are any company that meets specific financial and usage qualifications, including Google’s parent company Alphabet, Apple, Samsung and others.
SMS would basically be dead if Apple adopted RCS, that’s why it’s important. SMS needs to die.
Honest question, should sms die because it’s being a paid for service or for the insecurity or both or more?
It’ll probably always stay as a fallback, but because it’s an incredibly outdated protocol and lived far past it’s age.
Sms is a 20+y old standard. Could just be sending smoke messages, it would be equally secure and feature rich…