According to statcounter, iOS mobile usage share isn’t much higher in the US than it is in the UK, and its actually lower than in some Scandinavian countries. Suggests to me something else is a significant factor in the relative reluctance of many US iPhone users to consider 3rd party messaging apps.
Statcounter iOS mobile usage share for Sept 2023: USA 56%, UK 51%, Denmark 65%, Norway 63%, Sweden 54%.
Probably not, but they sort of don’t need to. I believe that there are already 3rd party apps for iOS that implement it, so Apple users with friends on Android can just use that, and grumble that they need to use two different messaging apps… until their friends also start to use the 3rd party one and switch away from iMessage 
Edit: hate discourse polls…
Actually, I have 5+1
8x8 work - phone/IM
Teams - IM/Video meets
Whatsapp - IM
Signal - IM for certain peeps
Meet - IM/Video meets
Then Messages, which is the default messaging app but one that isn’t baked in.
Wait you don’t have Allo any more? Or hangouts? 
I never liked Hangouts - it seemed clunky. So no loss there. Loved Allo though - that was ahead of its time in terms of UX. So was Duo for video stuff. Sad losses, but still nothing on the scale of rage I have for the loss of Inbox. Why the 
did they kill Inbox? One of life’s great mysteries. Feedly easily replaced the loss of Reader, but nothing - not even Shortwave - can do what Inbox did so well.
Anyway enough of https://killedbygoogle.com/ talk - back to Mobile Networks.
RCS is a solution for a North American problem. For a whole range of reasons, SMS is not where it is at in the UK and the blue/green bubble problem is not on the radar.
I’ve had RCS on Vodafone for maybe two years and it’s irrelevant to me because all I do is get one-time codes.
Absolutely I would.
But it won’t happen. Which is why the carriers are adopting RCS as an alternative.
+1 I loved Inbox, never found a true replacement
Killbygoogle is pretty relevant given google is running the RCS servers for so many and the messages app is closed source so google, they have done it so so so so so so so many times before.
The whole google privacy terms is also potentially poor from a privacy point, especially for apple, it should have its own policy.
With messages being closed source, if rcs took off, I honestly wouldnt be surprised if google started adding things that only worked with android and were closed off from others, they havent exactly been good with chrome after taking the lions share of the browsing market.
RCS should be open source with the apps also open sourced but instead its a supposedly open protocol with googles fingerprints all over it all to solve and issue that its 10 years too late to the party with.
Thats the thing, I dont honesty think there are a lot of people looking for a carrier alternative (esp with the mms huge charge fallback if data doesnt work)
Lyca confirm data was ‘accessed’
Lyca the dumpster fire that keeps on giving
Been using hotspot, even out in the sea and the 4 of us able to video, stream, upload images, zero issues using lebara manually connected to Vodafone GR (to avoid connecting to Turkey).
Sadly no orcas though or dolphins.
Stunning little islands though.
Am I reading this correctly?
As a Volt customer I can basically use all my data in the inclusive zone (250gb) not capped at the 25gb roaming allowance a standard customer is?
I’ve been annoyingly frivolous if so 
Edit:
Got it, I’m good to use as much as I can within my plan, as long as it’s not classed as abusing.
That’s what it seems to say!
Not sure why I never really read what it offers other than double data (I don’t travel much).
But now I know, very impressed given O2 decided to connect to Nova now in Kos and it’s actually pretty quick, they must’ve been working on the network as it kept sticking to Cosmote which was rubbish!
Samsung now also nipping at the iAnkles
That pressure is rising
I thought the EU ruled iMessage was not a gatekeeper?
EDIT: It appears they have removed them pending appeal
I don’t hate Apple. Far from it. It is an amazing platform.
I don’t choose to use it for personal-tech reasons, but I respect everyone else who does (out of our fam of 4, 2 are 
and 2 are 
)
But messaging Karma is incoming like a tsunami
He should upgrade to a Pixel. Photo quality envy totally owned.
