• TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s great Google. Since you made such a big stink about Apple supporting RCS that means you will let other apps on Android to use RCS, right?

    Right!?!??

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    2 months ago

    They need to rebrand RCS as something else. Messages is still synonymous with sms with android users, especially older devices and yes, older users.

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    Well, on my end, idgaf. As long as Google’s dick is in the pie, I ain’t fucking with it. It’s bad enough they’re into everything already, I have no interest in adding to it by being limited to their one app that allows rcs.

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    Yeah that’s the thing that people who want this don’t realize. Is that you are forced to use Google Messages with Google Jibe for RCS. But it’s really picky about the hardware it runs on Android wise. It won’t even let me send RCS messages on GrapheneOS which is a custom rom that forces you to have a unrooted version of Android. So to me this is monopolistic and terrible behavior on Google’s part. Where they force carriers and now Apple to pay billions of dollars just to message Android users with end to end encryption. But like it doesn’t run on my phone because you need a stock up to date version of Android that isn’t too out of date either or else it also won’t run. Nor does it run on my Android 11 flip phone because it’s too out of date and has been blocklisted by Google as a whole. Honestly if Google just opened up Jibe to third party apps I would use it. But with the forced AI integration that you can barely turn off among other things. I’ll probably stick to textra and switch away from using a smartphone as a whole when carriers in the United States demand that your phone support it in order to use it on their network.

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    2 months ago

    RCS isn’t good enough. There is only one app that it works on. Sometimes, no… often it just doesn’t work. I’m currently starring at a thread that used to work, but now I can’t send messages too. I made it! Everyone had rcs.

    Fuck the whole thing.

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      Half the time it works for me (Android talking to apples), and the other half of the time the encryption, reactions, etc just don’t work. It’s frustrating.

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    2 months ago

    The largest carrier in Sweden, Telia, still don’t support RCS ):

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    2 months ago

    In my network circle, only a few 50+ year olds still use SMS. Either everyone is on my Nextcloud instance, Delta Chat or Signal. Or of they have iphones they use imessages between themselves.

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    RCS won’t allow users to turn off certain things like read receipts. That’s problematic for some. I personally like them but I know people who don’t who I have unfortunately had to inform that they have to turn off RCS altogether to get rid of them even though there’s a setting to turn off read receipts.

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        We tested this extensively. On Android we all have the setting to turn off read receipts. It’s broken. It does not turn off read receipts for us. Our phones run the gamut from pixel 9 pro/+ to a pixel 5. To get read receipts to go away we had to turn off RCS completely.

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        They’re referring to iOS devices, the Read Receipts toggle on iOS is for iMessage not RCS.

        I personally left RCS off until Apple addresses this.