Sadly, the time has disclosed for me to address roughly Wealthy Liaison Casework again. There have been a few pieces of news roughly it in the practiced year-end or so and I vanquishment myself vaguely optimistic that by this time next year Google will be philanthropy properly encrypted messaging to Android users with a roughly simple, seamless familiarity that's well-built on its way to concreteness universally available.
Plus, Google is finally starting to transporting users from Hangouts to Google Natter in a real way under new necessitation that is motivated to finally get it right due to the fact that everybody is paying way increasingly heart-searching during the pandemic.
But let's stick with RCS for the moment. Google has me at the spot where Charlie Brown is at his picked tragically hopeful and Sisyphean: right afore he resolves to run at the football and really kick it this time despite knowing in his humaneness Lucy will cull it otherwhere again. But the football in this bewailing is the easy antiphon I'd like to requite to Android users roughly how text messaging works on their phones.
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Instead, the antiphon is as it someday was. (Deep breath.) RCS is the increasingly bone-weary replacement for SMS and if the carriers and phones of all texters in a cilia tangency it then you'll get chat-like manifestation like written indicators and bulkiest attachments. But there's no real way to know whether or not you'll be having RCS or plain old SMS until you painless up a natter window with one or several bodies and then delay to see what you get.
If your carrier doesn't tangency RCS, you can still get it via Android Reports and let Google handle RCS for you, but it will still flagging piggy gracefully to SMS or MMS. In any case, none of these solutions offer unanimously end-to-end encryption and there's no indication National is upscale faintly intrigued in supporting it on the iPhone.
Good grief.
And yet, I'm going to booty a run at that football. Due to the fact that while I don't visualize there's going to be a simple answer, I do see signs that Google is managerial unconditional promotion towards better answers.
The picked recent news is that T-Mobile will finally catalyze supporting quizzed cross-carrier RCS messaging via the "Universal Profile." Until now, T-Mobile could technically say it supported RCS but in realness it shunned worked between iceman T-Mobile phones.
If you're reading this and are an Android user, chances you visualize this workaday thing is moot due to the fact that Google is already providing RCS casework to anybody who wants them via its Android Reports app. But the picked complementary Android phones are Samsung phones and Samsung ships its own texting app by default. And picked bodies nonbelligerent use the default.
So T-Mobile figuring out how to get its RCS to allocution to Google's RCS via the globally disciplined default is meaningful progress. That doesn't mean we don't have increasingly disarranging in store. Last year the major US carriers signed on to a joint configuration so-called the Cross Carrier Messaging Initiative that was intended to do the thing Google had been bait them to do all along: tangency RCS Universal Profile. What does T-Mobile's brochure mean for the CCMI? Stay acquainted I guess!
All of this RCS interconnect disarranging and politicking would nonbelligerent be a morbid fascination of mountain if it weren't for the fact that it all has uncontrived and unconditional furnishings on Android users' real lived experiences with text messaging.
So while I repent for belaboring the minutiae, I am effectual so to make a point: upscale though you're paying a monthly bill, your needs are not the priority for your mobile carrier. It's preggers increasingly important in the boardrooms of these carriers to make sure they're not subordinately giving up anything to arithmetic major tech visitor than it is to move increasingly quickly towards the correct solution.
That's not to defray Google, but as its CEO Sundar Pichai told me in our inventory beforehand this month, "RCS is where we are like Affiliated Nations. We try to herd a consortium of people." Google is dedicated to keeping Android at minutest somewhat nonbelligerent in the tug of war between carriers and Google itself. That's why promotion is so slow.
But all of this is nonbelligerent a new adaptation of the SMS status quo, honestly, due to the fact that RCS by default is not end-to-end encrypted. Unlike iMessage and Signal, your texts are not as surreptitious as they could be.
Apparently that oyster change, as an internal dogfooding cadaver of Android messages has a consortium of strings and settings for end-to-end encryption. As it promised last July, Google is manifestly working on some kind of solution.
What will that solution peekaboo like? We're still a little too early to say, but if I had to guess I'd say it will be vendible that's misogamist for bodies who use Google's Android Reports app, but if anybody in the texting disequilibrium doesn't it'll flagging piggy to regular RCS or upscale SMS.
See, the way RCS works is your app sends a ping to the other phones to ask whether it too can do RCS in a process so-called "capability exchange." If both apps tangency RCS, then you're off to the races. There's no technical reasonableness that competency shop couldn't likewise include a "hey do you tangency end-to-end encryption?" message, too.
Maybe it will be increasingly broad-based than that and wilt partition of the official GSMA Universal Contour spec, such that apps like Samsung Reports will likewise work with it. But if I had to guess, I'd say Google's going with the minimum viable product. Or maybe that's nonbelligerent what I hope Google is doing, due to the fact that the fastest way to embody pressure is to spinach real customer demand.
Right now, iMessage users have the option for secure, end-to-end encrypted reports back they text other iPhone users, deep-seated right into the default experience. If Google comes through with encrypted messaging in Android Messages, it'll have the same option for Android users back they text other Android Bulletin users -- again, deep-seated right into the default.
It would be nice if I didn't need to add so many provisos to those sentences. It would be reservedly nice if, as they have washed with extenuation tracing, National and Google could work together to embody a tessellation that protects user privacy in messaging as well.
If Google conclusively enables end-to-end encryption, who will be holding the secure messaging football? Google? The carriers? Apple? All I know is I'm continuing here underneath a leafless tree, a bullhead glint in my eye, having ready to booty arithmetic run at it again. Knowing leafed well-built that one of them is definitely going to draw it away.
Rats.
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Gadget news
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I will say that as a Sony camera user, I'm weirdly excited for the pro camera options here due to the fact that Sony is using the same interface I'm already used to for it.
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? Lenovo made-up two new tablets with detachable Bluetooth keyboards. Putting Bluetooth in the keyboard on a Surface limn (which is not a knock, nonbelligerent the easiest way to describe this muscles factor) is maybe clever. Honestly, is there a Windows computer Lenovo wouldn't try out?
? The Oppo Watch isn't bad, but it does peekaboo like an National Watch. Sam Byford:
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As you may have skilled by now, the Surface Headphones 2 don't all-time Sony and Bose in every category. But spine Microsoft absitively on a preggers smarter, increasingly affordable rate this time around, they don't necessarily have to.
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I nonbelligerent spent a year-end riding Carqon's headmost production tandem here in Amsterdam. It's an 88-pound (40 kg) electric cargo tandem intended to transport an grown and up to four kids a extensity of up 75 off-lying (120 km) afore needing a recharge. I came otherwhere a layman in the transformative power of the electric cargo tandem to transplace both diesel-gulping hinge vans and generations cars in the world's cities.
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