This episode is all about Macworld reader and listener hot takes. You have thoughts and we’re going to share and respond to what you wrote—and on this show, it’s on two recent topics specifically.
This is episode 866 with Jason Cross, Michael Simon, and Roman Loyola.
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RCS on the iPhone
On November 17, 2023, hell froze over. That was the day that Apple announced that Rich Communication Services (RCS) will be coming to the iPhone later next year. For those who don’t know what RCS is, essentially what it will do is make the experience of sending messages between the iPhone and Android much better.
The news spurred a lot of people to post their opinions on the Macworld Facebook page.
8GB or unified memory in a pro Mac
About a month ago Jason wrote an article about the 8GB of memory in the base model of the MacBook Pro and how it’s not enough. Even though Apple thinks 8GB on the Mac is equal to 16GB on a Windows PC, we’ve easily been in situations where the consumer apps being used need more than 8GB.
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