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BURN@lemmy.world 1 year agoDoesn’t everyone hate it when google extends APIs? Think it’s called EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish). They have a history of killing standards as soon as they have enough market share.
If you change off of googles servers you lose features. I’d consider that no longer an open platform. So despite not needing to use their implementation, if you want the modern features RCS is often advertised as having, you have to go through google. That’s not an open standard.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only 2 features I’m aware of the you lose are e2ee and those sticker things, all other modern features in RCS are present in the Universal Profile and there’s no reason that e2ee won’t come to the Universal Profile in time.
Like I said I’m not enthralled that Google is the one bringing RCS to the US, but I prefer Google over the carriers (Who were supposed to do it in the first place)