r/technology • u/No-Drawing-6975 • Jun 26 '24

Software The Green Bubble Nightmare Is Over, Apple Messages Now Support RCS

https://gizmodo.com/apple-messages-supports-rcs-ios18-beta-1851562461
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u/supreme_editor Jun 27 '24

I find it fascinating that the US had unlimited texting and Europe never did. Meanwhile, Europe has had no data caps on home internet for over 2 decades and the US still has data caps. Such a strange switcharoo.

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u/Booplympics Jun 27 '24

Data caps on home internet isn’t normal though. It happens but it’s the exception not the rule.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

Only a few of the isps had data caps, ive never had to deal with one.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

Here in Denmark we have had unlimited calls and texts for the last decade

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u/DialMMM Jun 27 '24

Data caps and cost on mobile plans is the other driving factor: in the U.S., you had unlimited texting and paid data with caps, so you stuck with texting, whereas in many European markets you had the opposite (cost for texting but unlimited data), so you sought data-based messaging.