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"Meanwhile, Screen Effects’ “vibrant animations that will transform your words into dazzling visual displays” "
Please don’t.
Why does
developersmanagers think we want this!? It’s awful and distracting.:wave2:speak for yourself
I just wish I could send videos that aren’t compressed to shit. Who cares about colors
I just upload it to YouTube as “unlisted” and share the link
Google touting RCS like it’s some big new thing as if it isn’t some outdated as hell unencrypted protocol and defnitley has nothing to do with the fact that they have been sitting on their ass not even trying to make a new system all while blaming apple.
God what a mouthful
If it ain’t open source E2E, then shut up and sit down.
Google messages as an app can also screw off. Pictochat from the DS had a more usable and nicer looking UI.
RCS supports E2E though! https://support.google.com/messages?p=messages_e2ee
E2E on RCS is not a described standard. This is a google addon that requires the use of data/WiFi to function, and is exclusive to the Google Messages App because Samsung torpedoed their own app last year, leaving Google as the only E2E “provider”
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Functionally, it’s not even straight RCS because it bypasses the protocol limitations by using wifi anyway.
At that point, it would be equivalent to using Signal or Whatsapp since they don’t run on GSMA either.
To be fair though, I guess this is also partially GSMA’s fault for not properly creating a guideline for an updated standard or version.
People genuinely care about message colors? That’s so far beyond my level of understanding, I don’t even pretend anymore.
I have no evidence of this theory but I suspect that it is partly a result of careful manipulation.
Many buttons/menus in iOS utilize the blue color for text or backgrounds that also is used when you message another iOS device. The result is that it feels congruent and natural within the color scheme of the operating system - if you are messaging an Apple device.
The green color used for messages to non Apple devices is somewhat jarring in comparison and subtly (or subconsciously) gives you the impression that something is not right. Additionally the green that was chosen provides less contrast to the white text (relative to the darker blue & white). So reading the green bubbles is just a little more effort. These effects combine to a general sense of unpleasantness.
I believe all of this is deliberate on Apple’s part and isn’t as simple as someone “caring” about colors but rather the situation being engineered to make them care.
Oh that’s actually a very sensible theory, I can totally get behind that. On android I’ve themed my phone to a pretty much black & white style, so if anything in another color shows up, I’ll first assume it’s a warning of some sort.
I was hoping to be able to change colors for my group chats to set them apart. So this is going to be SOOOOO helpful for the two people in my contact list that are RCS.
I use QKSMS+ as my message app and can change colors for every contact. I have a group chat with my wife (phone and Google voice tablet) and daughter and they all are different colors.
Yeah I did the same thing with textra. RCS is tying me to Google messages,but sometimes I don’t know why I bother. Only 2 people I text with use it and googles app ain’t the greatest.
Googles tablet app barely tips the scales at the moment as the free one I tried (Join) was kind of inconsistent and the paid ones are too much. But man, googles tablet app is ass too.
Sadly yes, my fiance gets so much shit from her dumbass coworkers who all have iPhones for “ruining their group chats”.
This is really silly. The kind of people who care about bubble colors aren’t going to change phones because Google added bubble colors.
Why? No one wants it.
What about RCS for other than SIM1?
