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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Now that iPhones have RCS messaging, is something like this still desired? Can't everyone just use RCS instead (assuming that everyone has a somewhat modern phone/OS that supports RCS). Or am I not seeing something here?
Well except that RCS is locked up by Google. I don't believe there are any foss implementations.
Not only that, but there were reports that even Google's implementation was stealthily turned off on custom ROMs or rooted phones :/
Not even stealthily they just required some device validation bullshit iirc. Basically they require the ROM is signed by a Google certificate. They don't do that for custom roms even GrapheneOS after the android dev team request they get added multiple times.
I'm on GrapheneOS so RCS isn't a solution for me.
Ah. I heard that in some cases (maybe earlier on?) they just didn't deliver the messages without erroring out. Anyway, I wouldn't be able to use it either because a) not all carriers have it (where I am, only one does) and b) apparently not all manufacturers have it either, especially if we're talking about cheap Chinese ones which are the majority.
Interesting point. Does that mean iPhones and Android can now have a shared group over imessage/whatever it's called in Android? Are those messages encrypted?
The EU would like it, given that very few people here use SMS/RCS still.