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Then you lose RCS?
Yes
What is RCS?
RCS stands for Rich Communications Suite. Its a standard developed by google to make texting more feature rich like dedicated messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. Pretty much any stock android app uses it these days. If you want to know more here's a pretty good explanation of it. https://www.androidcentral.com/what-rcs-and-why-it-important-android
Thank you for being kind! And sorry I should have attempted to Google first
You're totally fine, forums and social media are made for the discussion and dissemination of information. Keep asking questions and keep on learning.
RCS is Google's attempt to replace SMS with a protocol they can control.
Long overdue replacement to sms but unfortunately everyone has pretty much given up being a provider except Google and soon to be Apple
You could have had the answer yourself in the same time it took you to write that comment by just looking it up.
Just... why? It's like you want to be dumb.
You could have answered them in the time it took you to write that comment.
Just... why? It's like you want to be an asshole.
So I’ve dealt with many people like you. Sometimes the point of talking on the Internet is for the other people who come along later to have easy access to information.
Sort of like I hope this will help you help others now or at least the other people who read this will have seen it and it will have had an impact on them.
Knowledge should never be hoarded. It should be friendly given to all.
It also has a neat kind of crowd-sourced verification attached to it.
If someone asks a question, and someone else gives an incorrect answer, chances are good that someone will see that and correct them. If, on the other hand, everyone goes and looks up the answer, some people might get an incorrect answer and have no one to correct it, further disseminating false information.
Obviously this isn't perfect, and requires that the information is fact-based in the first place, but it's interesting to think about any time you see someone correct someone else on the internet.
Would you answer the same way if somebody asked you a question during a real-world conversation? If not, why?
"just google it, dumbass"
tool.
Oh well. I don't care enough about it to let Google suck up my messages. Back to sms for anyone on my contact list who doesn't want to use Signal.
What was the benifit again?
End to end encryption if both parties are using google's implementation, delivered/read indicators, far better data limits for media, works without phone signal over data, message limits increased, free and international, fallback to sms if recipient doesn't support it
There is no open source implementation of RCS.
No open source implementation of our phone radio firmwares either but yet here we are