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(googler, opinions are my own) Disagree. RCS is most definitely an open standard that Google has bought onto in the last few years. The standard itself is 20 y
by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own)
Disagree. RCS is most definitely an open standard that Google has bought onto in the last few years. The standard itself is 20 years old at this point I think. The problem was that carriers could not agree on a set of features to implement, which made all of the various implementations non-compatible. Google bought Jibe that was working on a standard implementation that carriers could roll out. The biggest thing really that Google has been pushing for with the GSMA is the universal profile, which defined a set of features that all carriers would implement.
We are now at the spot where universal profile has mostly been agreed upon. Carriers can implement their own version, get a self-hosted version of Jibe, or let Google host the RCS system. The last option is the easiest for carriers to do, but obviously puts Google in the middle.
The nice thing about RCS is that it is a standard. Google could totally walk away from it, and all the carriers and phone makers could still use it. You can't say that about any other chat app out there (maybe matrix would be the only one).
- ulfw 7y ago> Google could totally walk away from it, and all the carriers and phone makers could still use it. Not exactly unlikely...
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoThis is getting boring. Which products that Google has given an SLA on have they dropped without transitioning users and against SLA? Not prototypes or random free experiments but actual products?
- reaperducer 7y agoWhy the SLA qualifier? That's like saying, "Go ahead and name one Google product with an owl in its logo that got randomly dropped. You can't. That means Google is stable."
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoBecause otherwise it is deeply pointless to complain about a company dropping prototypes. The SLA tells you they are planning to support it. Anything else is just you using a free prototype.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoSure. So the take-away is still, whatever you don't sign an SLA for with Google is liable to disappear on short notice. Including Google's interest in RCS.
- littlestymaar 7y agoGoogle reader wasn't an experiment, it was an 8 years old product with millions if users, and it was closed with just a little bit more than 3 months notice. Which is a ridiculously short notice…
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoWhich they never made money from. Corporations tend not to provide free stuff forever.
- jacquesm 7y agoThen don't buy it. RSS was doing just fine until Google stepped in. It's a pretty clear case of EEE.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoWhich they never made money from. So we should adopt a "standard" which Google profits off of? More specifically we should rely on something for which Google's profits are the primary goal? No thanks.
- ulfw 7y agoWhat does an SLA have to do with Google having dropped numerous messaging attempts? Please stay on subject.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoThe product which people pay for in Gsuite has undergone a seemless transition from hangouts to hangouts chat...
- neom 7y agoTo my dismay, they sunset Google Hire.
- casefields 7y agoIt’s getting boring because it’s so common that it’s become nearly unnewsworthy. Frankly, that’s quite embarrassing.