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Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones(9to5google.com)

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After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages…

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Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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SMS has one advantage over any other messaging service: Every cell phone that is currently in service is capable of sending and receiving SMS messages.

WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Meebo, AIM, ICQ, Discord, Skype, Teams, Ventrilo, Roger Wilco, Slack, Hangouts, etc. are all optional. You have to install them. And which one a random American has installed is completely unpredictable. There’s also a good chance that “I use an iPhone so my religion requires me to use iMessage.”

SMS WILL get through.

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Horsey@lemmy.world
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Small point here too: SMS used to be a paid plan option in the US. I never paid for an SMS plan because iMessage was free over data (I just wouldn’t receive texts from Android users). There was a good amount of time when iMessage was legitimately a great option.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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I just wouldn’t receive texts from Android users

So it’s not a cross-platform messenger.

Other messengers existed before iMessage. Other societies didn’t refuse to accept cross-platform messengers. Installing wasn’t even hard back then.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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You have to install them.

Yes, and people around the world do and aren’t hung up on green and blue bubbles.

SMS WILL get through.

SMS is the thing normal people use for two factor codes, not actual messaging and even for 2FA SMS is a bad idea because it’s so insecure.

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brax@sh.itjust.works
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Literally nobody is hung up on bubble colours other than you and iPhone users… Most people don’t give a shit, and the added benefits of RCS basically bring it up to spec with a typical messenger, and since it’s pre-installed it means that you don’t need to worry about messenger app segregation. You don’t even need to create an account.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Literally nobody is hung up on bubble colours other than you and iPhone users…

Sure.

Most people don’t give a shit

Absolutely untrue. Not only do the handful of American Android users cry about that all the time, even Google cried about iMessage: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/8/23951935/google-european-telcos-apple-imessage-digital-markets-act-core-platform-service-gatekeeper-lobbying

You don’t even need to create an account.

People make accounts all the time. With Google’s RCS, they have an account on Google’s servers.

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