Fri. 11/17 – Apple Adopts RCS

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

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Surprising almost everyone, Apple is adopting the Google-led RCS messaging standard. IBM suspends its advertising on X. Amazon is selling new cars on Amazon.com. A rebirth of Quibi? The surprising biggest mobile game of the year? And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Miro.com/podcast Nuts.com/ride Links: Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5Mac) What color bubbles will RCS messages be? Apple confirms the answer (9to5Mac) IBM pulls adverts from X after report finding they ran next to Nazi content (Financial Times) Hyundai to Be First Automaker to Sell New Cars on Amazon (WSJ) A Quibi-like app called ReelShort hit record downloads and revenue this month (TechCrunch) 2023's Apparent Biggest Mobile Game Launch Is Not What You Expect (GameSpot) Weekend Longreads Suggestion: Inside Marques Brownlee’s tech review studio: The YouTube star on gadgets, growth, and staying chill (Fast Company) A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft (New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ryan Home for Friday, November 17th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:10.0	Surprising almost everyone, Apple is adopting the Google-led RCS messaging standard.
0:15.5	IBM suspends advertising on X.
0:18.1	Amazon is selling new cars on Amazon.com.
0:21.6	The Rebirth of Quibi, the surprising biggest mobile game of the year, and of course,
0:27.0	the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:38.0	Did not see this one coming and nobody else did either, apparently. This lead paragraph from 9 to 5 Mac kind of says it all.
0:42.0	In a surprising move, Apple has announced today
0:45.2	that it will adopt the RCS Rich Communication Services
0:48.5	messaging standard.
0:50.0	The feature will launch via a software update later next year and bring a wide range of
0:54.4	iMessage style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users.
1:00.1	Apple's decision comes amid pressure from regulators and competitors like Google and Samsung.
1:04.4	It also comes as RCS has continued to develop and become a more mature platform than it once was.
1:10.6	RCS brings many iMessage style features to cross-platform messaging between iPhone
1:14.9	and Android devices. This includes things like read receipts, typing indicators, high
1:20.3	quality image and videos and more.
1:23.0	Apple's implementation of RCS will also give users the ability
1:27.0	to share their locations with other people inside text threads the company says.
1:32.0	Unlike regular SMS,
1:33.4	RCS can work over mobile data or Wi-Fi as well. But at the time of this
1:38.9	writing, iMessage isn't going anywhere. It will continue to be the messaging platform used for all communication
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