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Gruber: Apple was 'effectively forced' by China to bring RCS to iPhone
In November, Apple surprised us all when it announced that RCS support would come to the iPhone sometime this year....
“I can’t say for certain, alas, but after spending the last few months periodically poking around the trees inhabited by little birdies, I do have good news for fans of coercive government regulation,” Gruber says. Gruber points to a new law in the works in China that will require that 5G devices support RCS in order to receive certification in the country. One narrative in the months since Apple’s RCS announcement in November has been that the move was driven by the Digital Markets Act in the European Union.
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