Make a public RCS API for Android. Stop trying to get people to use your app by withholding features from third party apps.
Yeah I thought RCS was going to be this platform-agnostic service à la SMS.
I’m trying out matrix with my close family and it’s working great. Bonus points it doesn’t require a phone number or even a phone at all.
Only “benefit” of RCS I’ve seen is the avalanche of spam from companies. I’ll be turning it off. Don’t text that much anyway.
i mean sms messages are extremely expensive and when you need to contact someone over sms rcs can be a life saver
I didn’t know you could even get a phone subscription without unlimited calls, sms, and mms anymore.
After a bit of looking I couldn’t find any subscription without it.
I actually have a dirt cheap $15/mo Public Mobile Canada plan that has 250MB data and 100 minutes… and even that has unlimited SMS.
15$ for 250MB of data? God that’s expensive
That’s nice. But without some serious marketing they won’t get people off of WhatsApp in Europe.
I don’t know how much better going to another closed system is. AFAIK it’s only Google running these servers and only their implementation.
Yeah. I don’t really think it’s better either. I just think it’ll fall flat on its face like Google’s many many previous attempts at messaging unless they actually tell people it exists.
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Don’t worry about Europe, we don’t use SMS and we also do not want RCS.
We are perfectly fine using apps like Telegram/whatsapp/Signal.The whole “green/blue bubbles” thing is USA only, keep it USA only please, thank you.
RCS done properly would be nice. I’d very much like to not be sending my messages through meta. Google’s implementation, however, just trades one American giant for another.
With an app it is just me, the app and whatever internet connection I have.
With SMS&co instead I have to deal with a system outside that, managed by the phone company and whatever.
Also apps are constantly updated, RCS standard will just become SMS2.Even iPhone users use an app in USA, it is only USA android users that for some random reasons are still stuck to SMS.
Here I just open telegram or whatsapp and message with anyone, no matter the phone. Or discord, or Matrix…
