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More RCS opinions on author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1480679515298934786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1480679

• jcranberry 5y ago
  So RCS is bad because it's messaging based on phone number rather than email address? Why isn't SMS bad?
  • kergonath 5y ago
    SMS would be terrible as a new solution now. It is still useable because it works in any situation where you get a 2G signal, but it is mostly used as a fallback. And around here SMSes are free and unlimited in €2/month plans (data is the new cash cow).
  • acdha 5y ago
    See his next tweet: https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1480679860381138947 https://twitter.com/RonAmadeo/status/1480679860381138947 I think he's right: the big problem I have with SMS is that it's run by the carriers, who are terrible at non-phone infrastructure — that's how you get SMS delivery latency ranging from seconds to days, completely opaque to the user, and new features are a long, slow grind. RCS preserves that model going forward.
    • jcranberry 5y ago
      Ah I see that makes sense. Somehow I didn't see that in the thread. So this person just wants to move away from phone number based messaging entirely. I will say SMS Is still useful when you don't have an internet connection. TBH I feel like most people are moving away from SMS already. I suppose google could just go the route of Apple and bake in google messaging or something into the OS.
      • acdha 5y ago
        What I’d like would be doing something like the way notifications work or what Apple did for video streaming with the TV app: make messages pluggable so I could have a single app listing all of my conversations like I had with Adium a decade ago. I might still open those apps for extra features when I need them but it’d be nice to just see my last message from someone without having to remember that e.g. we normally use Signal but sometimes use SMS or WhatsApp in groups.