Because no person in my life uses it I made the generalization that it isn’t used much, leading to my top comment.

The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.

Is this satirical? RCS is beholden to some American company as far as I can tell.

They still need an RCS client on PC, etc.
All the apple users I know use WhatsApp, Signal, telegram and not one uses IMessage, not even the company I work at, which uses iPhones mainly, uses IMessage for communication, private or otherwise.

I guess so? I haven’t met anyone who’s using sms for that but apparently that’s just regional.

It’s going live in a few months iirc.

Yeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.

Did you expect it to ever get better? Best google can do is kill background apps without your permission.

So we’re back to square one, five messengers and one which “can do anything”©®™ led by google. No thanks I’d rather let SMS be as it is.

As far as I can see you can’t join the network without some kind of authorization (see rooted phones being unable to).

No, I’m saying that there isn’t. You can use all those things on every platform, RCS would be the 6th program you need to install besides the other 5 you already have and it seems useless compared to the rest.

Edit: platform as in android, windows, iOS etc

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?

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.

I don’t know any person using sms for regular communication, everyone I know uses some kind of messenger app.

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.

Maybe I missed something but who even cares about RCS?