Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months agoThey don’t own the standard, but they own the Android implementation of it. Other RCS implantations are hardcoded to not be supported on Android, with the exception of Samsung’s - and they had to enter an agreement with Google.
It’s not open unless you create your own new operating system and implement it that way.
Google’s implementation also adds a bunch of closed-source extensions on top of the standard.
Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 2 months ago
That's not true. Even Microsoft Windows' phone app supports RCS itself as a client with Android. What you're referring to is Google's own RCS servers that performs E2E, which is outside the RCS standard itself (currently).