Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve lost track of all the messaging apps they had:

  • Hangouts
  • Chat
  • Gmail Chat
  • Google+

  I’m sure I’m forgetting a few.

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  • Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Allo

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Duo

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    • meepmeep@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      begging they bring back whisperSHOUT from Allo to Google Messages :(

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      • cole@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        that was awesome

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  • concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google Talk

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s also Duo, which turned into Meet. it’s basically Google Facetime.

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  • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google Talk was the name before it became Gmail Chat

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  • Konman72@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hangouts was so close to perfect before they blew it all up.

    Now I’m using a mix of Chat and Voice and it’s terrible for everyone. Voice doesn’t even support RCS from what I can tell, and all my messages with iPhone users are full of reactions. It’s so annoying. I’ve had the same Google Voice number for over a decade, why is this so frustrating.

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Voice is soooo frustrating. It had so much promise! But they haven’t added anything to it in what 5 years? Maybe longer

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      • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        tbh I don’t know that I would remind anyone at Google that Voice exists, I think that’s just about the only thing that is keeping it alive.

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  • gears@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They also killed YouTube DMs

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  • jormaig@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Duo (videocalling app)

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  • Cheez@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the one that stole its name from the other one.

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• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Samsung has 0 credibility here because they just use Google messages and Google’s Jibe implementation of RCS.

  If Google drops Jibe for something else, it means Samsung is as well.

  RCS isn’t really a standard anymore either. Once Google put out their own proprietary Jibe implementation, everyone just adopted that instead of putting in the work to implement it themselves. All the carriers in the US use Jibe as their RCS backend, and Samsung moved to using Google Messages as their default messenger. And all RCS messages go through Google servers.

  If Google decides to do something else and drop Jibe, like they have with every other messaging service they have had, that’s it for RCS.

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• MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Samsung’s record on RCS isn’t great. Their Samsung Messages app didn’t work across networks for most of last year. Like RCS only worked on t-mobile, but only for t-mobile branded phones, and for some time they couldn’t send to AT&T. Not sure if Google Messages was much better during that time period.

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