crypticsage t1_it7y2lk wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:13 PM

I would rather see iMessage on other platforms. RCS seems to have privacy concerns.

With iMessage, the encryption is end to end. At minimum allow for PC to use it. More people would be willing to buy iPhones if they could integrate iMessage to the pc as well.

Archbound t1_it88mo5 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:23 PM

RCS has end to end encryption as well for person to person texts, I agree it needs to be expanded to group messages.

crypticsage t1_it8bpz8 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:43 PM

Until such a thing is implemented, there is still a security gap where iMessages still dominate.

Plus it can only do end to end encryption if the app has the RCS feature enabled in the app. I believe there is a carrier component to that as well.

Archbound t1_it8dsin wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:57 PM

There is, I mean listen if Apple opens up iMessage to all platforms and it gets universal adoption that would be great, I just done see it happening.

In reality I see RCS being developed more and apple eventually being forced to adopt it either though public pressure or by legislation.

Or more likely neither and we keep everything worse.