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I mean... If anyone would know it's Google. Nobody has held back functional instant messaging more effectively that them. Let's see if RCS actually works? Te

I mean... If anyone would know it's Google. Nobody has held back functional instant messaging more effectively that them. Let's see if RCS actually works? Telecoms and Google saying this new messaging standard will be better is not exactly an endorsement I would trust.

aspenmayer 5y ago
> Nobody has held back functional instant messaging more effectively that them. This is more to do with Google being really, very bad at not canceling projects only to later reinvent them, only to later cancel them again. Your point is cogent and stands, just pointing out how Google has a penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. RCS is DOA if you actually care about the security it claims to support. End-to-end encryption can be turned off by anyone who knows your phone number and is in a position to sim swap you. There’s a public Google site for this, and it uses, you guessed it, SMS. You can’t make this stuff up. RCS group texts are not e2e. iMessage group texts, just like all iMessages, are e2e.