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Cross-messenger groups are not a thing between WhatsApp and any other messaging app, your snark isn't helping any point. "The rest of the world" is also not th

• lovethevoid 2y ago
  WhatsApp has been pushed by EU to have third party interoperability, so your core point won’t hold up much longer.
  • lxgr 2y ago
    Interoperability will unfortunately only be available in the EEA, as far as I remember Meta's last public statement on the matter.
  • Longhanks 2y ago
    * in the EU So, won't help with Americans or any other part of "the rest of the world".
• lxgr 2y ago
  I'm not saying the rest-of-world status quo is ideal or even desirable; I'd also much prefer an open and federated network, or at least interoperability. But what I wanted to highlight is that SMS/MMS and generally carrier-based messaging is just as much of a weird communication island at this point as all of these OTT messengers are, from a non-US point of view. RCS would just be a continuation of that, so I'm not sure if it's worth cheering on Apple for taking this path, further cementing Google's hold on Android messaging in the US – they run almost all the infrastructure and get all the message content, after all!
  • mmcnl 2y ago
    RCS is arguably a better solution than a single gatekeeper.