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What is rcs?

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RCS is like sms2.0, it supports better group chats, larger higher quality file transfers, read receipts… That sorta thing

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For carriers it is a way to extend the (in my opinion outdated) idea of carrier-based chat system.

For Google it is a way to switch messaging on Android to their proprietary app, at least for some time, as other of their projects falied.

For users it is a way for people using Android certified by Google to normally message people using iPhone and it’s preinstalled chat app.

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Google got jealous of iMessage and remade iMessage, but Android with the promise of making it more open.

They haven’t followed through on ‘more open’ until just now.

Rcs officially works on 2 apps. iMessage still has just 1.

But hopefully Rcs will actually become open in the future. Allowing anyone to make an Rcs app, like they can with SMS

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That doesn’t answer my question at all.

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It’s a protocol that implements modern text messaging features for sms, similar to imessage on ios. Since nobody has used sms since the nineties it’s probably useless for most of us but it’s interesting to see what tech giants fight about.

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RCS is open protocol, but has no open implementation and Android has no native support (only by Google Messages app that act as a bridge to Google Jibe RCS servers).

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