It's great that they've simplified their story. Totally makes sense now. Texting app and AV app for consumers, texting app and AV app for teams. But this lea

It's great that they've simplified their story. Totally makes sense now. Texting app and AV app for consumers, texting app and AV app for teams. But this leaves a giant hole in their consumer texting product. Have they given up on making a private, cross-platform texting product for consumers? Messages seems like it must use an Android phone as the user's primary device – as SMS requires OS integration and presumably RCS does too. And neither SMS or RCS are private. Carriers have full visibility to all messages. That's light-years less secure than the end-to-end encryption offered by iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal, and even less private than the former Hangouts. (Say what you will about Google, I'd trust them with my private messages far more than any pair of cellular carriers.)