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Is the title misleading or am I confused? Google can only rollout its app on stock Android for Chat (known as RCS), the supposed successor to SMS that is (also)
by newscracker 9y ago
Is the title misleading or am I confused? Google can only rollout its app on stock Android for Chat (known as RCS), the supposed successor to SMS that is (also) a carrier protocol that comes with the ubiquity and disadvantages of SMS. Google announced recently that it has worked with several telecom carriers around the world, Android OEMs, etc., on the implementation and rollout of RCS. But it's not the one that's going to be doing any rollouts by a large measure.
- maym86 9y agoYep the title is misleading. "Google has stressed that Chat is not a new Google app. Since RCS is a communications standard, it is up to individual mobile networks and phone-makers to switch on the functionality." The title should be something like: Google has started the global roll-out to support a new messaging standard.
- squeaky-clean 9y agoBut Chat is still a new Google app, isn't it? RCS is the new standard, but "Chat" is a Google app. There's a chance they could stop supporting it, and with the next-next version of android go back to shipping an SMS messenger, or (more believably) decide a new standard is better and ship that, dumping RCS. To me it reads like "Google has stressed that Chrome is not a new Google app. Since HTTP is a communications standard, it is up to individual mobile networks and website-makers to switch on the functionality."