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I have 3/7 and I hate it. I wish signal never removed the ability to function as sms
Even if it did, it didn't support rcs
That's because Google is gatekeeping the android API for RCS
Wait, I thought Google wanted Apple to start supporting RCS. So that everyone can talk to each other.
So Google is just...trying to strong arm apple to give up their proprietary protocol for their own?
That's so fucked up.
RCS is an open standard. However, on Android you can only use it with Google chat. So android stops any other apps from using it. Nothing to stop you making your own phone from scratch and adopting it.
It's incredibly stupid, I know.
Samsung messages app also supports RCS, depending on your carrier, though? It's super fucking buggy and frequently switches back to sms so I still switched to Google messages, but it does technically have it.
They only have it because they reached a deal with Google.
Nothing to stop you making your own phone from scratch and adopting it
Unless we count current market state when it's not possible to make slightly different phone, as even camera or modem manufactures do not publish documentation for those components and just give binary blobs for Android. And forking Android adding deep integrated features without Google will be a pain.
Yeah, it's mad.
4/7 here. I'm fine with it. Though sms should be included.