Still not buying a Samsung.
They can keep both those shitty apps. I’ll be sticking with Textra.
Couldn’t give one solitary fuck about RCS.
if RCS got open sourced it would be nice. might be misremembering but I think apple is working on that?
either way, it would be a nice upgrade from SMS, and unlike apps like signal, everyone would already have it
It isn’t a open standard. It uses proprietary apps with a proprietary exclusive backend
The RCS Universal Profile is a publicly available standard, but there is no FOSS client stack that implements the standard. Google restricts RCS support on Android to the proprietary Google Messages instead of making it part of the Android Open Source Project. Apple Messages and iOS are also proprietary.
The EU should use the Digital Markets Act to force Google and Apple to allow competing RCS clients on Android and iOS.
sure would be nice if I could use my Google Voice number on it
The end is coming. Soon you will need Google messages or Apple imessages. You will use proprietary messaging applications and like it
We need more competition not less
sms is essentialy just a confirmation code delivery protocol tho? (like i have around 100 “chats” with just confirmation codes in them and ZERO conversations…) and i don’t see anyone using rcs mostly because of EXTREMELY poor reputation of sms messaging…
