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How do you expect that to work? Apple doesn't allow third-party SMS apps, and as far as I understand RCS is also pretty closely tied in with carriers so it prob
by nyuszika7h 5y ago
How do you expect that to work? Apple doesn't allow third-party SMS apps, and as far as I understand RCS is also pretty closely tied in with carriers so it probably wouldn't work without official support from Apple either.
- Closi 5y agoTo be honest I didn't realise it was based around RCS (or really what RCS was!) I thought Google had their own thing, but I think I was getting confused between Messages by Google and Hangouts (or one of their other apps). Can you do a hangouts chat within messages by google? (The whole Android messaging ecosystem is so confusing to me!)
- ianburrell 5y agoMessages on Android is just SMS and RCS. Hangouts is dead, replaced by Google Chat. On Google Fi, Messages can sync messages with web app. I wish there was a Messages for iOS for reading Google Fi messages on my iPad. But that would be a pretty niche use and they would have to call it something less confusing. Hangouts used to have the ability to do both Hangouts and SMS. But it didn't have the ability to automatically switch like iMessage. They could have also rolled out the ability to sync SMS to more carriers instead of just Sprint and Google Fi.
- onphonenow 5y agoCan't they ship a whatsup style client and then proxy it onto RCS or whatever they need to use on the backend? The reality is a google is a total mess. We couldn't get their speakers to work with their calendars on paid accounts for the longest time (think 5+ years).