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That's not true. Your phone number is your "account", and phone numbers, by law in the US, are not tied to a particular carrier. You can take your phone number,
by Alupis 4y ago
That's not true. Your phone number is your "account", and phone numbers, by law in the US, are not tied to a particular carrier. You can take your phone number, and messages wherever you go.
- joshstrange 4y agoHow is this an advantage? Phone numbers are the worst identifiers, I don't want things tied to my number. Even if I can move my number to another carrier I want less in my life tied to 10 digit number that I don't really "own". Also you can't take your messages with you unless you have them saved on your phone. SMS (and RCS as I understand it) don't account for storing/syncing your messages.
- Alupis 4y ago> SMS (and RCS as I understand it) don't account for storing/syncing your messages It doesn't, which is the beauty of it. RCS is a protocol, not a service. Services can be built on top of the protocol, like storing/syncing messages - but the protocol has none of that. Perhaps you are conflating services like iMessage (and their feature set) with the protocol that is responsible for transport and send/receive of the messages, and based off that conflation are negative on Google operating a messaging service. This is not that, however. There will not be a single app for RCS... in fact there are already dozens (if not more) RCS compatible messaging apps, each with their own services/features. This is analogous to how SMS works... there is no such thing as "The SMS App".