• timbuck2themoon@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think they care about beating WhatsApp, they only care about iMessage. WhatsApp doesn’t stop people from buying Android phones, iMessage does.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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…

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            1 year ago

            True. But the for the last part, but the argument for RCS is the same. But more so. You’d know you could just message them using it and you wouldn’t need to know if they were using WhatsApp discord. No matter what their phone would have RCS, or would fall back to SMS.

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        1 year ago

        Yea. This concerns only stupid Americans and their obsessions with bubbles.

        Us Asians also do not need stinkin’ RCS. We use WhatsApp.