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Why do people want iMessage for Android? That gives them more control over the entire messaging ecosystem.
They're adopting the RCS protocol, that's what people should want. It's interoperable with all phones and not just the ones that happen to support iMessage. It's supposed to replace SMS and MMS, which are guaranteed to work between all platforms.
This iMessage vs WhatsApp vs other walled-garden messaging apps debate is stupid when an open protocol is right there.
Standard RCS is not e2ee, only google's implementation on top of it is. I feel most here would prefer an e2ee messaging protocol over something else that can be observed by third parties
Samsung is the only other company that integrated Google's e2ee implementation into their stock messages app fairly recently, it's supported standard RCS for a good number of years now
Couldn’t agree more.