Today is the deadline for Apple to argue to EU regulators that iMessage shouldn’t be designated as a core platform service.
It’s therefore extremely likely it revealed the iPhone will support RCS to please regulators, and not as a response to Nothing’s blue-bubble-on-Android news from yesterday. That’s not stopping CEO Carl Pei from taking a victory lap, earned or unearned. Never change, Carl.
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There’s nothing wrong with the Galaxy S23 FE, but it feels like an uninspired collection of surplus components rather than one for the fans.
You know that nature is healing when Verizon issues a press release that doesn’t mention 5G. This one’s about a trial on the company’s fiber network that sent 1.2 terabytes per second of data over a single wavelength. In 2020, a similar trial achieved 800Gbps — in service of an impending “explosion of data” over 5G. How times change!
I left Qualcomm’s annual tech summit in Maui lightly sunburnt, cautiously optimistic, and confused as hell.
