re: Marques Brownlee explains the Apple Antitrust lawsuit

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Im having trouble following you're overall point through the trivial details. but to the above, purely from a whats best for the RCS protocol going forward, Im not sure RCS implementation solely in the hands of the carriers would benefit RCS the most. I foresee that leading to massive fragmentation in the experience, at least in the short term. IMO The ones that have to most incentive to innovate on the experience are the tech companies. And it looks like we might already be seeing that with Apples contributions to the Universal Profile, a possible sharing of MLS encryption, etc. Who knows, maybe Jibe goes away as the Universal Profile is further iterated on.

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It's not trivial, it is basic codes and regs the carriers dictate directly to manufacturers to meet the regulations they have to abide by, by the government to be able to market and sell phones for that network. AKA things like meeting their frequency needs and such. The government could easily make regulations require interoperability of RCS universal profile. This wouldn't single any company out and would force every producer of phones to meet this need and you could set a compliance driven date like most industries that have to meet a standard before fines and such set in. There are all kinds of compliance driven codes that relate directly to cell phone network, why not just go that route?

We are eventually going there anyway to deprecate SMS/MMS and replace all those codes that relate directly to that.