Other Android apps do support RCS. Google doesn’t allow other apps to implement the end to end encryption, however.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s great Google. Since you made such a big stink about Apple supporting RCS that means you will let other apps on Android to use RCS, right?
Right!?!??
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What other messaging apps support RCS and can be used to replace Messages? How are they doing it? Last I knew Google did not male the RCS API open to app developers.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Samsung Messages supports RCS, for instance
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Samsung Messages is just a slightly modified Google Messages and as far as I am aware Google has not allowed anyone else to even do that. Plus last I knew Samsung more or less stopped doing much with it and has opted to just use the standard Messages on all of their new phones.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Well no. How is Google supposed to feed all your text messages into their AI for profit if they allow a choice?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RCS? No.
Whatever they replace RCS with next month? Yes.
Archer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I doubt they would be that benevolent.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t worry, that will be replaced a couple months later by 3 separate protocols that each cover about half of what you want and combined get to 80% of what you can do today.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
… if we are lucky
Dempf@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Best we can do is silently block your messages if you fail Play Integrity.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once a month like clockwork -_-