Building bridges without blue bubbles.

  • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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.

    • bradboimler@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Also they’d need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.

      iOS RCS works through the stock Messages app like iMessage does. It’s not a separate program.

      • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        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.

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      14 hours ago

      Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Google…

      But you’re saying there’s one app that will connect to them all and work? I don’t think that’s the case unless there’s something like Pidgin for Android, I guess…

      • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        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

        • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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          14 hours ago

          But RCS is intended to be an industry standard. A user doesn’t install the internet on their phone, they install a web browser that is able to interact with the various standards that make the internet. In the same way RCS should make those other messaging apps either irrelevant or force them to become somewhat more interoperable while potentially making it easier for open source solutions.

          That being said, Google are being absolute cunts when it comes to RCS. They bitched about Apple not supporting it while simultaneously making it nearly impossible to have any app other than theirs that can do RCS messaging.

          • InnerScientist@lemmy.world
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            14 hours ago

            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).

    • keyez@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      maybe I missed something but who has 5 messenger apps installed??

      • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 hours ago

        Easy. I’ve got Google Messages, Signal, Telegram, Slack, FB Messenger, and Nextcloud Talk.

        I use them all.

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        14 hours ago

        Signal, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Google Messages. I guess Snapchat could be on there, too.