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I really, utterly, and completely hate RCS. It's incredible how Google and Apple managed to screw up the messaging market. I want to have very straightforward
by cyberax 2y ago
I really, utterly, and completely hate RCS. It's incredible how Google and Apple managed to screw up the messaging market.
I want to have very straightforward functionality: send rich notifications to my clients via RCS.
It's simply impossible. Carriers control RCS, and you need to make commercial agreements with each one to make sure your messages are delivered. Wonderful.
But it gets worse. There's RCS Business, so once you do get agreements with carriers, you can spam users as much as carriers approve. There is no way to opt out of automated messages. India got a dose of it and RCS got disabled pretty quickly.
I wish carriers just looked at Telegram or Signal for examples of _good_ messaging infrastructure.
- hocuspocus 2y agoArticle author here, I didn't look into this as I naively assumed that the consolidation around Jibe would make this use case better than SMS, not worse. I see a lot of providers on this page: https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ https://jibe.google.com/partners/messaging-partners/ Including Twilio, Sinch, ...
- cyberax 2y agoYep, to make RCS business messaging useful, you'll have to use a middle-man like Twilio. They take care to sign contracts with individual RCS carriers. And some carriers might refuse interconnections entirely (as a result, Twilio supports only a subset of countries). And of course, this is not cheap. Carriers don't have any market pressure to compete on the RCS interconnection price. So you'll be paying not-insignificant per-message fees over the IP infrastructure.