Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it’s broken for me also.
Yet one more reason to not use the hot garbage that is RCS
RCS is walled off by design, so that users are dependent on Google and their phone carrier. If they wanted an open standard they would have adopted something like XMPP.
RCS is designed to be used with a phone number though. And fall back to SMS when unavailable. If XMPP was used.
If RCS was fully walled off, Apple would not be able to implement it like they said they would
Reasoning
They stated its for reducing spam and that jazz.
However, it has the hidden benefit of yet another reason to avoid rooting, which means less access to functional adblocking
yet another reason to avoid rooting
we can all agree that literally nobody would give up their rooted phone if they’re forced to choose between root or RCS
I would definitely root. But I do want to have access to my banking apps and GPay. Even though I do have a watch that can do all that
You can have root as well as gpay and wallet. I have literally right now in Android 14.
I don’t care how many services they break, I’m not giving up root access.
I used to unlock the bootloaders for a couple of years on all my phones, 10 years ago or so. I installed cyanogenmod and used it the way it was supposed to: rooted. But then Google Pay came along as well as banking apps that actually did their jobs better then the banks’ web sites. You couldn’t use either of that reliably with a rooted phone. So now I am back to stock android and I am actually quite happy with it. I like the google services, including Google Pay. Also, stock android improved a lot since the early 10s.
Not one single mention in the article of what an “RCS message” is.
Boy do I hate articles that just assume you know all the context you need.
