> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone is not freedom to use a service, if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be

> Freedom to root/jailbreak one's phone is not freedom to use a service, if they don't want rooted phones to use their RCS gateway I don't think they should be forced to allow it. The whole argument that Google has been making for RCS is that it's open. However, that isn't actually the case. You're only allowed to use Google's apps (or Samsung's since they had enough market power to force Google to make an exception for them). RCS isn't an open service. It's just Google's chat service that they got carriers to adopt claiming it was open. Google used RCS as a trojan horse to get the whole Android ecosystem to move to a chat service they control - and where they receive all the unencrypted meta-data. They block competing apps from getting access. Google got up on its high horse about supporting an open standard when that was a complete fabrication.