That’s not how it’s supposed to work. It’s a federated system with each carrier supposed to run things for their customers. Why does it work today? After years

That’s not how it’s supposed to work. It’s a federated system with each carrier supposed to run things for their customers. Why does it work today? After years of begging Google gave up and put all their users without carrier support (basically everyone) onto a Google RCS instance. Despite how the article tries to portray things in many ways it’s iMessage but worse. With Google running everything it might as well be proprietary. And it lacks full E2E encryption. Things probably would’ve been better off if Google had just stuck to their own private protocol and used that instead, perhaps opening it.