4 ms·

Except not limited to 160 characters (70 if you want Unicode) and with rich media capabilities.

• stonogo 1y ago
  So... MMS, then?
  • djtango 1y ago
    Why did MMS feel so janky back in the day? Was it a client thing or a protocol thing? Whatsapp felt so responsive back in the day. I'd be pinging my family in real time halfway across the globe on mobile in 2009. For Free. That was a killer app... Why did MMS fail where Whatsapp succeeded?
  • jeroenhd 1y ago
    MMS has terrible limitations, in both file size and media resolution. RCS has replaced MMS as a protocol back in 2008 and it's only now gaining traction. Many carriers have shut down their RCS infrastructure half a decade ago, though, so they're not exactly jumping on the chance to turn it back on.
    • magicalhippo 1y ago
      I enabled RCS on my Samsung S21, but had to disable it after a day or two. It just didn't work reliably. But yea MMS sucks, would be nice with some common cross-platform alternative that worked well.