You don’t know what you’re talking about. Samsung, Verizon, ATT, and who knows who else all had their own proprietary RCS apps that were not compatible to any others.
15 years and it’s still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.
Stop pushing this garbage that’s tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that’s tied to a phone number?
Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.
What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that’s hard-bound to a phone number?
How can you say what Google has done is “encouraging RCS”? They literally monopolised it.
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What??
The RCS API on Android is only available to Google Messages and whomever Google allows (like Samsung Messages when they existed). This is the reality.
If the RCS API was truly open there would be an explosion of FOSS alternatives to Google’s spyware.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Samsung, Verizon, ATT, and who knows who else all had their own proprietary RCS apps that were not compatible to any others.
15 years and it’s still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.
Stop pushing this garbage that’s tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that’s tied to a phone number?
Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.
What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that’s hard-bound to a phone number?
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