Apple’s 1st round win — RCS is FINALLY coming to iPhone

So it’s finally happening — or is it?

David Lewis
Mac O’Clock

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iPhone 15 Pro Max
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A week is a very long time in the tech space — and this week is no exception — with Apple is never far from the headlines

Apple has just seemingly made a massive announcement in regards to its messaging platform — but is it just Apple’s attempt to shower us with goodwill?

Let’s pull back the curtains on the announcement yesterday that Rich Communication Services (RCS) is finally coming to iPhone.

Nothing to do with it

This story has been brewing for quite some time and clearly, pressure has been growing on Apple to listen to the pressure being mounted by Samsung, Google and Apple’s dear friend — the European Union.

The timing of Apple’s decision is, well, very Apple. Earlier the week Carl Pei announced that iMessage would be coming to the Nothing Phone 2 — kind of.

Nothing’s workaround for the age-long issue of messaging between Android & iPhone was to develop an app solely for the Nothing Phone 2 called Nothing Chats. On the face of it, it offers many of the benefits of iMessage — blue bubbles and high-quality video sharing — but there will be no end-to-end encryption and it just seems to me that in order to get those…

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David Lewis
Mac O’Clock

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