https://9to5google.com/2024/07/20/samsung-google-messages-no-longer-pre-installing/
After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages...
The end is coming. Soon you will need Google messages or Apple imessages. You will use proprietary messaging applications and like it
We need more competition not less
Weirdly enough, messages seem to be the only thing I see the general public being ok with diversifying.
Everyone I know uses different messaging apps, I have active conversations in signal, telegram, Whatsapp, messages(SMS), messages(RCS), discord, and matrix.
sms is essentialy just a confirmation code delivery protocol tho? (like i have around 100 "chats" with just confirmation codes in them and ZERO conversations...) and i don't see anyone using rcs mostly because of EXTREMELY poor reputation of sms messaging...
Same, I don't use other messaging apps besides Discord and Element, but those are for chatrooms.
They can keep both those shitty apps. I'll be sticking with Textra.
Couldn't give one solitary fuck about RCS.
if RCS got open sourced it would be nice. might be misremembering but I think apple is working on that?
either way, it would be a nice upgrade from SMS, and unlike apps like signal, everyone would already have it
It isn't a open standard. It uses proprietary apps with a proprietary exclusive backend
The RCS Universal Profile is a publicly available standard, but there is no FOSS client stack that implements the standard. Google restricts RCS support on Android to the proprietary Google Messages instead of making it part of the Android Open Source Project. Apple Messages and iOS are also proprietary.
The EU should use the Digital Markets Act to force Google and Apple to allow competing RCS clients on Android and iOS.
Direct link to PDF of RCS Universal Profile specification
This PDF link can be found on a search engine. You can also fill out the form with fake information and a throwaway email to get the link, though you don't have to.
