Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone

• Kid_Thunder@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They are also the only RCS supplier on Android. A random messaging app can’t simply add RCS messaging functionality.

  You are correct that an app can't directly implement RCS but it can support it. RCS is implemented by the carrier, not by Google or any other text application.

  RCS is an open standard that any carrier can implement to replace SMS/MMS. The only thing special that Google does is on top of RCS is provides E2E via its own servers for handling messaging. The E2E isn't a part of RCS, though it should be IMO. Regardless, Google doesn't 'own' the Android implementation because it isn't a part of Android, other than it can support the carrier's implementation of RCS.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No app on Android can use RCS yet, other than Google messages.

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    • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not true. Both Samsung and Verizon messages uses RCS, so long as your carrier has implemented RCS.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Samsung had to sign a deal with Google with unknown terms and is Google messages underneath.

        Verizon idk, I’m not American.

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      • jaagruk@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Any FOSS or privacy friendly implementation?

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      • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Samsung messages is just a reskinned google messages

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    E2EE via server sounds wrong.

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    • Kid_Thunder@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well sure. You've got to trust that Jibe isn't man in the middling the key exchanges but regardless, it doesn't change what I said.

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      • lengau@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And just to note, the same is true of iMessage & Apple.

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    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you didn’t create private and exchange public keys with the other party, you aren’t fully in control. I’m not saying that as some kind of righteous purist, just a technical point of note.

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