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RCS is a carrier standard. It will stagnate and die a slow death over the next 5-10 years just like SMS and MMS. The carriers have absolutely no place establish
by parkingrift 5y ago
RCS is a carrier standard. It will stagnate and die a slow death over the next 5-10 years just like SMS and MMS. The carriers have absolutely no place establishing or maintaining a standard.
Google epically failed to establish a messaging ecosystem similar to Apple, and so they went to RCS. But they’ll regret it when the standard fades into uselessness.
- distances 5y agoI was working with RCS related stuff for a carrier R&D group in 2008-2009. I was sure it was a dead horse already then, so it blew my mind when the term reappeared a year or two ago. I actually had to check if it was just coincidentally the same name. But no, somehow the thing was still alive and now after over a decade actually adopted too. It's anyway useless outside of US now as that ship has sailed, proprietary chat apps ate the market.