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I can finally ask iPhone users for a charger. The world is healing
USB-C?!
On a phone?!
The Apple Magic🪄 has outdone itself this time. No one has ever seen anything like this before. This is the biggest technological innovation since Apple invented oled screens on phones in 2017.
Mind = blown
Need iPhone 16 or 17 with a waterproof replaceable battery so I can swap batteries while camping. Not needing to fuss with solar chargers would be awesome.
Just get a powerbank
Ok. Now I just need to replace my expensive headphones when those come out, and I’ll be free of lightening. I’m guess it won’t be for a while, as ok don’t like replacing expensive things with minor updates.
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t just drop a pretty altogether and rely on mag-safe and airdrop.
I think that might have been the plan years ago, might even still be long term. I think people like Ive really like the idea of a portless device and they were trying to get there but the realities of wireless charging and connectivity have gotten in the way.
AirPower proved to be so much trouble they just scrapped it, MagSafe has been a hit but real world charging speed is a lot slower than wired. Plus people love CarPlay and most don’t have wireless capable cars. Apple probably realize full wireless is not going to be ready in the near future and have put plans on hold.
I hope they don’t do that until they force car manufacturers to be using wireless CarPlay for years. If they drop a port, a lot of car owners won’t be able to use CarPlay.
As a workaround, there are wireless adapters for carplay.
Know of any good ones? I have one but it kept crashing and when it didnt it had a 4 second delay.
toss
Don’t throw them out yet if they work flawlessly. Give them to someone you know or just leave them somewhere. Also, you might need your old iPhone for some reason and so you should probably keep one (possibly semi-broken) cable.
Start selling your charge cords now.
Great. Now do RCS
Google version or Verizons version or samsungs version or… lmfao
End to end encryption shouldve been enforced by RCS theres no point for apple to implement it when android hasnt even made it so anyone can make an rcs app with E2EE by default other than Google
RCS is not an open standard, it’s just Google’s version of iMessage and it all goes through their servers. Stop regurgitating Google propaganda
While Google is a major pusher of RCS, the standard is owned by GSMA. The entire standard is also published and freely available. Furthermore, RCS messages are not required to use Google’s Jibe platform; other companies are free to use their own. For example, many EU carriers do not use Jibe servers. Not all RCS messages go through Google servers. Technically the standard is even open enough to use individually, but you will realistically run into road blocks setting it up yourself. In any case, please stop regurgitating this nonsense.
https://source.android.com/static/docs/core/connect/ims_single_registration_v1_1_1.pdf
https://www.gsma.com/futurenetworks/rcs/universal-profile/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14Ns9oV0Dh8_S5M-JHDvJ8sNHR6rpbiq2N6qZlP3g9zQ/The whole iMessage/RCS conversation is really only relevant in the US; in other countries basically everyone uses WhatsApp or Kakao or LINE or whatever the local favorite is. In the US, there is no industry-standard RCS. It’s theoretically a carrier-based messaging service but all of the carriers outsourced it to Google so, as an alternative to iMessage, the option is a proprietary extension of RCS running on Google servers, something that is exactly as open as iMessage itself.
If you want a true industry standard way to send messages to people, the iPhone has had that since 2007: email.
It’s a bit more complicated than that unfortunately. RCS wasn’t made by Google, but they did join the GSMA that manages it. They are pushing it as an alt/war against iMessage, but it doesn’t go through their servers as far as i know, it’s still a Mobile Operator service (like SMS), so it goes through your provider (and I guess Google’s if you use Google Fi).
I kinda think the smart thing for Apple to do is to implement RCS support (make the bubbles orange/purple or something) and then they’ve done it and can continue working on iMessage if they like.
RCS is an Open standard. Companies have just been dumb with it
A 5 second search could’ve told you the exact opposite of what you said. Maybe check yourself before you wreck yourself.
