You can interoperate with googles RCS.
If you are willing and able to enter a partnership like Samsung, you can do it fully (including encryption support etc).
Google are determined to not make it easy, and I agree with you, it appears to be yet another messaging land grab.
Trying to put myself in their headspace for a moment, one justification for making it hard is to stop thousands of apps coming out declaring "full RCS support!" through the APIs, then screwing the pooch (through poor security or deliberate back doors or or or).
Right now Google are desperately attempting to make RCS happen, after almost a decade of trying and failing to make various carriers play ball.
They do not want any bad press about how feature poor/insecure/slow/buggy it is right now.
Yes and no.
You don't need to make your own OS, but you do need to implement support for the RCS protocol within your app, rather than piggyback on Googles APIs.
I don't like it, but there's no legal requirement for google to provide those APIs, like they did with SMS etc.
The US is reaching when they seek his extradition, and many countries in the world would outright deny the application.
And the basis of an extradition is that the crime was committed in the requesting country, even if it was done so remotely.
Making heroin in the US is illegal.
Hundreds of tons of it are made in Myanmar every year without the US demanding extradition of the producers.
Until someone tries to import that heroin into the US, because THAT's the crime in the US.
As you point out, Assages only involvement in the crime was encouraging someone else to gather information for him - something journalists do all the time.
Whether or not we like Assange as an individual is beyond the point, there's a definite "greater good" point to be made here.
War crimes were committed and covered up.
Without wikileaks, that may have never come to light.
Even without punishing the individuals involved, KNOWING that this information might leak out can help prevent these things happening again in future.
Journalists need to be able to publish with protection.
And Assange being personally unlikeable doesn't change the role he was acting in, no one should get to say "he wasn't employed by the wall street journal", or "she doesn't have a journalistic degree".
Because a foundation of law in all the countries involved here is that the truth is protected, and Assange published provable facts.
You repeatedly speak of a trial: "he deserves to see trial", "avoid trial", "If he wants a trial here".
And his supposed guilt.
Assange is not a US citizen.
At no point during any of this was he in the US.
There are no valid charges to even place against him, and if he was a citizen of a competing country like Russia, China, India etc we'd hear NOTHING about his role in any of this, because those countries governments would tell the US to sod off.
The truth here is that the US is desperate to get access to him so that they can make an example of him, so that others are less likely to share embarrassing US secrets in the future.
The little jabs about "worked with Russians" (ooh, he's working with the ENEMY) and how "he’s guilty and he knows he’s guilty" (he must be guilty, he's running!) are some straight up bullshit talking points from the likes of Tucker Carlson.
I mean not Tucker Carlson now (nose up Putins ass), Tucker Carlson then (SOME PEOPLE say that you beat your wife, I'M not saying you beat your wife, BUT a lot of people are saying it, and she had a bruise on her arm the other day.
It does make you wonder, doesn't it?)
I agree with this part of your statement 100%.
It will work POORLY.
Whether it's in the same app or simply a different colour like SMS is currently, it'll be a half assed implementation, designed to segregate your iphone and android friends.
Got an existing iphone group chat? Bet you can't add an RCS participant to it.
Create a new RCS group chat so you can include everyone? Bet it's missing features that you'd get in imessage.
Receive a high resolution video from a friend via imessage? Forward that to another friend via RCS and they'll receive 5 blurry pixels.
And throughout all of this, apple will blame the RCS protocol and say "We're actively working with GSMA to improve RCS".
They have promised to implement "RCS Universal Profile"
This means the bare minimum, not the advanced features implemented by Google and Samsung etc.
An example of a missing feature from Universal Profile is end to end encryption.
They also said: "This will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users."
The implication of this is that it won't be in the iMessage app, it will be in a separate but official app, siloing your Android friends from your iPhone friends.
When this comes out, every European is going to shrug and keep using Whatsapp.
You, being aware that there are more choices that Labor vs Liberal, are more educated than the vast majority of my family (and dare I say the community at large), who believe that voting for anyone else is "throwing their vote away".
These are not contradictory at all.
People have to vote, and its easier to convince someone to NOT vote for the hated enemy, which implicitly gets them to vote for you.
Think about your audience and the specific features that will potentially appeal to them.
Depending on who that user is, the same feature/quirk can be either a pro or a con.
There's lower user numbers here compared to something like Reddit, but the people involved tend to be of an average higher tech literacy.
So there's not as much noise, but there's also not as much signal.
As a user, you can spin up your own instance, which gives you complete control...
But it also introduces a financial and moderation expense, not to mention inherently leading to fractured communities.
I don't think it's strictly compliant, although they claim to have based it's syntax on Korn shell, which is the strictest definition of POSIX shells.
You can do pretty much everything in powershell that you can do in something like bash BUT, it will be done slightly differently, so trying to make a script cross compatible is pointless (you might as well just write it natively in powershell etc).
Powershell isn't inherently bad, unlike bash for instance which just allows piping out text output, Powershell can pass around true .net objects.
But if what you're looking for is cross OS compatability, you're pushing shit uphill.
99.9% of the time, I open powershell and just ssh into a "real" linux box.
I have an American based friend who recently visited and I discussed this with him.
His house has an asphalt shingle roof, which is beyond common, it's standard where he is.
This means the roof supports are light, and won't tolerate the load of solar panels (direct weight maybe, but not torque from wind).
Beyond that, his states power company have limited the accredited installers to a group that refuse to sell panels, they effectively lease them to you, with an insane payoff period.
If you go independent, you can't tie into the grid.
He's subject to a HOA, which means he can't build anything in his yard without approval.
And so, whilst he's paid for his dad here in Adelaide to have panels on his roof as a no brainer, he's given up in the US.
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You can interoperate with googles RCS.
If you are willing and able to enter a partnership like Samsung, you can do it fully (including encryption support etc).
Google are determined to not make it easy, and I agree with you, it appears to be yet another messaging land grab.
Trying to put myself in their headspace for a moment, one justification for making it hard is to stop thousands of apps coming out declaring "full RCS support!" through the APIs, then screwing the pooch (through poor security or deliberate back doors or or or).
Right now Google are desperately attempting to make RCS happen, after almost a decade of trying and failing to make various carriers play ball.
They do not want any bad press about how feature poor/insecure/slow/buggy it is right now.