Android phones - Making group conversations with iPhones Users a Challenge

[SYD]

Correct, if you are not blue you are out

As above, “damned for eternity”….

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Correct, if you are not blue you are out

Bingo - and I starting telling a few today - you should have heard the sooking

 

[Quickstatus]

And some of these same people are/were sooking that their grey import Android would not work when 3G was turned off

 

[prozac]

WeChat is a ......... 3rd party app?

It is like a Chinese Whatsapp.

 

[SYD]

It is like a Chinese Whatsapp.

Just keep your chitchat to stuff you don’t care if the rest of the CCP knows….

 

[prozac]

Just keep your chitchat to stuff you don’t care if the rest of the CCP knows….

I had to install it when I was working for a Chinese company a couple of years ago. I still worry that my conversations at home are being faithfully listened to. Sorry, not Wechat, that's Google that listens and then sends you ads that match your conversation.

 

[DejaBrew]

The problem is Apple uses a different version of RCS

Actually, the problem is largely the telcos. Apple have supported RCS since iOS18, but it’s reliant on the carriers enabling support (which to date they have not). Telstra used to support it, but shut down their RCS support a while back.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Just keep your chitchat to stuff you don’t care if the rest of the CCP knows….

Yes and to think I have bared all 24/365 since Confucius was in nappies and in 200+ visits to China I still have never been whisked aside / interrogated / incarcerated - feeling rather short changed actually

I actually wish I was in possession of some of the state secrets that some of our fellow AFFers have and are so keen on guarding

 

[DejaBrew]

I had to install it when I was working for a Chinese company a couple of years ago. I still worry that my conversations at home are being faithfully listened to.

The Party thanks you for your service

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Yes and to think I bare all 24/365 and in 200+ visits to China I still have never been whisked aside / interrogated / incarcerated - feeling rather short changed actually

Clearly TDKWYA

 

[Quickstatus]

It is like a Chinese Whatsapp.

It's like your MyGov app with chat and banking and other transactions functionality
It's not like Whatsapp because the encryption is controlled by the CCP.

 

[Quickstatus]

Apple have supported RCS since iOS18

Not really. IIR Apple's implementation does not include end to end encryption.
IOS18 is only a few months old

 

[DejaBrew]

IIR Apple's implementation does not include end to end encryption.

That is my understanding as well.

IOS18 is only a few months old

General release? Sure. But the Beta release was made publicly available back on Sep 16th ’24, with developer release earlier again.

 

[SYD]

Yes and to think I have bared all 24/365 since Confucius was in nappies and in 200+ visits to China I still have never been whisked aside / interrogated / incarcerated - feeling rather short changed actually

I actually wish I was in possession of some of the state secrets that some of our fellow AFFers have and are so keen on guarding

You need to get into a more interesting line of work. A CIA lawyer has more fun (ie watch the Intern! ).

 

[serfty]

I had this issue a year or three ago with a Punting Syndicate I'm in.

We all just moved to Whatsapp and the profits (somewhat) have been ours.

 

[Daver6]

So you're using a closed eco-system app on your iPhone, that Apple wouldn't allow others into via an API and then complain when it doesn't work with others?

 

[Flashback]

Could be viewed that way - UNLESS - you are doing business with Chinese and then it is ABSOLUTELY COMPULSORY PRIMARY App you cannot attempt to live without. Unless you are in that space it won’t make sense

Have done plenty of business with China and did just fine without it. YMMV.

It is like a Chinese Whatsapp.

Quite aware of what it is, just pointing out the fact that it says 3rd party no good ... but then uses a 3rd party app

 

[moa999]

In China both WeChat and AliPay these days are classed as mega apps. In that they do payments, chat, mini-apps and lots of other things

 

[only4tehlulz]

So you're using a closed eco-system app on your iPhone, that Apple wouldn't allow others into via an API and then complain when it doesn't work with others?

The lack of viewpoint from within the walled garden is sometimes astonishing, and also absurd how common the entire blue/green bubble issue is in the US.

 

[p--and--t]

Could be viewed that way - UNLESS - you are doing business with Chinese and then it is ABSOLUTELY COMPULSORY PRIMARY App you cannot attempt to live without. Unless you are in that space it won’t make sense

I was told that and believed that once too.

No longer use it for sourcing items any more. And deleted from my phone.

If they want the business they will use Whatsapp and email etc. Depends if going direct and not through third party I.e. Alibaba (still an app tho)

YMMV