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No it is not. RCS provides valuable features for users which are not present in SMS.

• threeseed 4y ago
  But Google RCS is proprietary. So then why not use another proprietary client like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram etc.
  • hpaavola 4y ago
    Because taking any of those services into use requires you to take those services into use. RCS requires no action from the user. That's why. Before you ask a question, please spend 15 minutes thinking about the answer.
• out_of_protocol 4y ago
  e.g. you can't send rcsmessage if target telcom does not support it (fallback to sms exists but that's runis the idea). Since adoption is (almost) always s-curved, last gsm operator to adopt it will do that ... not anytime soon
  • hpaavola 4y ago
    Which means that at its worst, RCS is just SMS. Which is an argument for RCS replacing SMS.