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Would be nice if there could be an implementation by someone else than apple or google
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Now if only my carrier will support RCS sometime soon 🙃 I convinced a bunch of my friends to upgrade iOS with the promise of better group texts but it’s all for nought as I’m still left out of group chats.
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Maybe I missed something but who even cares about RCS?
I’d sooner ask “why do people care about messenger apps”? Like what? Why do we need 5 different programs to talk to people because everybody’s on different platforms - none of which are even domestically owned by my country or really controlled at all by it.
RCS is slightly closer to a step in the right direction, but the fact that Google is so deeply latched into it still gives me some concern.
They don’t need 5 programs, there are lots of messaging services that work across the major platforms that people use, I don’t understand why we would want a new , “official” client made by google which locks out anyone they don’t like (rooted devices, third parties) which doesn’t even have the advantages of already existing options in terms of privacy, usability, and security.
Also they’d need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.
Anyone still using “Text Messaging”?
I don’t know any person using sms for regular communication, everyone I know uses some kind of messenger app.
Like Whatsapp? I prefer to minimize the amount of data Facebook collects on me.
SMS can literally be read by anyone spinning up a fake mobile tower, there is no e2e encryption and probably a few other security concerns I don’t even know, I’ll use WhatsApp before I use SMS as secure communication.
Edit: RCS fixes (some of?) this but at this point why not use something even better?
Nearly everyone I know is still using SMS, even if they’re also messaging using another app.
It probably depends on where you live.
Why do you prefer/use SMS?
People who still need to receive or respond to SMS or MMS, for work or for stupid companies that still use it for 2fa.
I doubt that those companies will switch to RCS unless they’re forced to and I’d rather they switch to time based tokens generated on the client device instead.
Americans.
So yeah, nobody cares about SMS/RCS
