re: Marques Brownlee explains the Apple Antitrust lawsuit

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I might be stretching this discussion some, however, one thing that concerns me is if the Gov't intervenes here. Is it possible that forcing apple to utilize RCS (or whatever) allows Big Gubm't to obtain/spy/etc on people's conversations/messages?

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As it stands right now, RCS universal profile aka the standard is much easier to spy on people. It's not encrypted. Apple will not use stock Universal Profile, but make their own fork that is compatible with it and should add encryption. Google has their own fork called Jibe that pretty much everyone in the US is using right now because the carriers don't give a shite about it.

There will be some things when Apple's version comes out that will not be compatible with each other for sure, but all the universal profile included things should work between each other.

The government really isn't forcing anything at this point because Apple was already working on integrating RCS this year. These public statments going after Apple about this is perplexing. Especially when the people who should be doing this, the carriers, could easily make it part of their requirements and force Apple's hand to be part of their networks.