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Still no RCS for iMessage. Ridiculous. So it's SMS or some other app with iOS users. Hello Apple? Your market isn't only the USA.
by Sunspark 4y ago
Still no RCS for iMessage.
Ridiculous. So it's SMS or some other app with iOS users.
Hello Apple? Your market isn't only the USA.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt's pretty clear that RCS isn't going to happen for iMessage. Arguably this is a good thing. Having network providers control messaging has largely been bad and finally killing off SMS could liberate everyone from the control of these providers. RCS is already outdated and undesirable before even reaching mass market.
- Sunspark 4y agoThere is value in a lowest common denominator. Originally SMS was fantastic because it was "free" in that it fit into the unused space the towers were sending anyway. If SMS was to go away, and if RCS wasn't used, then the default will end up being something like Facebook Messenger, which is not desirable since they also own Whatsapp. 1 corporation should not have line-of-sight into the metadata of the majority of the planet's messaging, and possibly also the internal content. RCS as implemented in Google Messages is not bad. It does include encryption (in Google's implementation) and the other features you'd expect. There are issues, such as AT&T S22 users because AT&T decided to make that device use their own server and not interoperate with the other server. But bumps like that aside, I've tried it out with some people and it works fine and because every phone has a unique phone number, you don't have to establish whether they are a Facebook friend or have the right app first to use it. If it's blue, they can be reached over RCS, and if it's green, then it's off to the SMS races.