> 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. Ser

> 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".