Are the any FOSS RCS apps for Android?
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months agoWhat exactly are you implying they should do?
Apple has already agreed to adopt RCS. Although the exact implementation they didn’t specify and will likely be “bare minimum”.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 10 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
The only RCS apps, to my knowledge are Google Messages and Samsung Messages.
Not sure why.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well as I can’t use either of those on my degoogled Android device, Apple using RCS is irrelevant, and they should use a more open standard, like Matrix.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Matrix is a terrible standard but otherwise I agree.
jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Unfortunately RCS is on the carrier side. The most basic chat system built in by the phone carrier will likely have RCS.
jaschen@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Antitrust laws prohibits killing off your competition. Just because they will have RCS, doesn’t mean they didn’t actively killed beeper.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
LOL that’s some impressive mental gymnastics. Beeper is not “competition”. If Beeper started their own messaging service, they would be competition. But that’s not what they did. They were literally hacking Apple’s servers and impersonating Apple devices so that they could use Apple’s service.