> The rest of the world is on WhatsApp and doesn't even know what RCS messaging is. Absolutely _not_ the case here (France), the overwhelming default is SMS (a

> The rest of the world is on WhatsApp and doesn't even know what RCS messaging is. Absolutely _not_ the case here (France), the overwhelming default is SMS (and now RCS). Sure people use WhatsApp but also Telegram just as much these days, but in both cases it's _not the default_. Maybe because it's been, I don't know, one to two decades that SMS have been unlimited in even the most basic plans. Also RCS Just Works here, I've seen my non-Apple contacts move to RCS over time as they got OS or phone upgrades. I'd blame NA carriers, which, from afar, seem to have a habit of screwing up in so many ways.