Apple is ruining individuals's relationships... a minimum of in response to Elizabeth Warren

Apple is ruining individuals’s relationships, apparently. At the least that is in response to Elizabeth Warren. The US Senator posted a video on Twitter (now X) through which she says that inexperienced bubble texts are “ruining relationships” and are one other “of the soiled ways that Apple makes use of to maintain a stranglehold on the smartphone market.”

It’s time to interrupt up @Apple’s smartphone monopoly. Additionally, c’mon, let’s cease leaving inexperienced textual content individuals out of the group chats. It’s simply not proper. pic.twitter.com/pr61Idf9yKApril 18, 2024

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For these not within the know, Apple makes use of completely different colored bubbles within the Messages app to differentiate between iMessages and SMS texts on the finest iPhones. The previous present up as blue bubbles, whereas the latter seem as inexperienced bubbles. What is the huge deal? These inexperienced bubble texts miss out on options similar to learn receipts and reactions, as they use SMS slightly than the newer RCS format.

Warren posted this video in assist of the DOJ’s lawsuit in opposition to Apple. Within the go well with, the federal government claimed that one of many world’s most profitable and invaluable corporations has a stranglehold on telephones, and said bluntly that Apple makes use of it to extract extra money from customers. iMessage is explicitly talked about within the lawsuit, arguing that Apple protecting the messaging app unique to iPhones is anti-social.

An enormous fuss about nothing?

The dearth of iMessage assist on Android implies that individuals need to resort to utilizing third-party apps like WhatsApp to ship wealthy messages to iPhone homeowners with out falling again to MMS prefer it’s the flip of the century. However RCS fixes that difficulty, permitting individuals to ship and obtain wealthy messages utilizing the built-in messaging apps that come pre-installed on iPhones and Android telephones.

However Apple has already confirmed that it will add assist for RCS to the Messages app on the iPhone. Whereas Apple hasn’t explicitly mentioned when the newer messaging normal would arrive, leaks from Google and others level to it rolling out within the fall. This could be alongside the discharge of the iOS 18 software program replace this fall, and now it seems that we’d have been proper on the cash with that. The addition of the RCS characteristic is barely a part of the iOS 18 replace expectation, nevertheless. Apple is roundly anticipated so as to add some new AI options to the combination

With RCS messaging on the way in which to iPhones, the inexperienced bubbles vs blue bubbles debate is considerably of a moot level. It appears odd for Warren to make use of this particular argument to indicate assist for the DOJ’s lawsuit, when it is among the weakest complaints within the go well with. These relationships Warren thinks Apple is ruining? Non-iPhone customers will not be excluded for for much longer.