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I hope the wider adoption of RCS will mean Google opening it up to other messaging clients on Android. If only because it'd be nice to fall back to something, a
by garciansmith 2y ago
I hope the wider adoption of RCS will mean Google opening it up to other messaging clients on Android. If only because it'd be nice to fall back to something, anything, a bit better than SMS (most of my regular contacts use Signal these days). I just don't want to be locked into Google's client.
- lxgr 2y agoI hope RCS will never be widely adopted. It's bad technology, and despite what Google says, it's not carrier-based: Google runs almost the entire show (since carriers can't be bothered to actually run RCS servers) and gets effectively all messages sent over it in plaintext, unless you happen to use Google's "Messages" app, which is the only one capable of end-to-end encrypting messages (using a centralized key sever run, you guessed it, by Google)! Google Talk was honestly better than this on literally every metric, and additionally didn't tie everything to a phone number as an identifier.
- sphars 2y agoI feel the same. I feel like I remember years ago, when RCS was first being implemented, Google said they would open the APIs so any texting app could use RCS. RCS is the reason I stopped using Textra and moved to Google Messages. Textra did say at one point they would integrate the RCS APIs when it was opened, but nothing has happened yet.