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Redex68@lemmy.world 6 months agoIt would probably just use RCS as the backend and have some different functionalities, they could easily just highlight “this person isn’t using Signal so chat features are limited”. Hell, Signal had exactly this when they made the app work as an alternative SMS client. They removed that feature, but it existed previously.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 6 months ago
Nah, fuck RCS. There is no reason for a mobile carrier to be involved in anything besides voice calls and TCP/IP traffic. Any protocol that requires participation from carriers beyond delivering TCP/IP packets is broken by design. It’s like designing a water faucet that somehow can’t work without active cooperation from your local water company.
smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Voice is also debatable.
VoLTE is such a mess. It requires OS, modem and phone operator to all work together, where I heard none of them is often to the spec. As of now voice calling should be a simple Internet based app, maybe with autoconfiguration to not break “inset SIM and done” habits.