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Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps... like Apple’s own iMessage.

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 278 points 1 year ago (23 children)

AFAIK there is no open source messaging app that support RCS yet. It's not even included in android AOSP (or is it? I can't find any reference). It would help with adoption if google actually open-sourced the RCS client app.

[–] ArtificialLink@lemmy.ca 183 points 1 year ago (22 children)

They won't let any third party apps use it so they are basically as bad as imessage.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 30 points 1 year ago (12 children)

The simple fact that iMessage has 0 interoperability makes it much worse than everything else.

So I doubt RCS could be as bad except if they remove the ability to operate with other RCS clients. And even for Google and Samsung that would be extremely stupid.

[–] Virkkunen@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

RCS is only interoperable with apps and carriers that adopt the Jibe protocol, so not much has changed.

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