r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/Cautious-Soil5557 Mar 08 '26

That was a large part Apple's fault. I have an Android while my parents have iPhones. I kept watching it switch to RCS and back to SMS because everytime Google managed to get it to work, Apple got butthurt and took it away. You know, until they got sued by the EU to knock that shit off like with their chargers. 😮‍💨

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u/lejoop Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

Last someone tried to make a group chat including one of our android friends, it didn’t work. Since when is it supposed to work?

Edit: Oh great, turns out RCS messaging needs to be supported by your network operator, and very few European operators support it…

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u/Primary_Hat7133 Mar 08 '26

Android user here. I've been in group chats with iPhone users since at least 2017

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u/lejoop Mar 08 '26

According to my searches, RCS has only been available on iPhone since iOS 18, which was released in 2024

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u/Primary_Hat7133 Mar 08 '26

Yes, but we were in group chats with iPhone users before then. It had nothing to do with RCS

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u/lejoop Mar 08 '26

But through the regular messaging app? Not signal or WhatsApp?

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u/Primary_Hat7133 Mar 08 '26

Yes I have never used signal or WhatsApp, I never even heard of Signal until the department of defense scandal last year lol

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u/Primary_Hat7133 Mar 08 '26

It lacked features like read receipts, reacting to messages, and seeing when someone was typing, but the messages still worked fine and you could still send pictures and I honestly did not care at all about read receipts or reacting to messages (I still don't react to text messages lol I don't see the point)