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Too lazy to switch apps too (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 65 points 8 months ago (26 children)

SMS messages, you can't (without two same apps with extensions).

RCS messages, you can.

These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of "text messaging". It's pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (20 children)

    How many people even remember MMS these days

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (12 children)

    I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old...

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    These days, WAP is something completely different.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm old, so old that I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to indulge an old man?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?

    I don't know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.

    Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.

    Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds...

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
    There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    MMS is no longer universally supported among carriers

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Fine by me, but why can't I send them SMS?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.

    Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don't have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    What are some apps that support RCS? I'd prefer to keep Google, Apple, etc off my device.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.

    Even if a third party app supported it, it'd still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.

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