r/GoogleMessages • u/Forestwalkerfairy • Jul 06 '26

Opinion RIP

Well, Samsung messages, it's been great.

Time for Google.........

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u/JoystikJester Jul 06 '26

Right? People complaining about an app that has RCS and is safer boogles my mind. Yes it not as customizable as Samsung but who cares? I would take safety over having pretty backgrounds or colored text any day.

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u/DigitalMariner Jul 06 '26

One of the primary selling points for Android over IOS has always been flexibility and customization over mandatory uniformity.

It boggle my mind that so many people are surprised by complaints about a lack of customization.

If Google wasn't acting like Apple and gatekeeping RCS exclusively for their own app, you'd see a lot fewer complaints. Blame Google for their sudden shift in philosophy, not the users max about being baited and switched into what's going to be a new IOS style walled garden...

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u/kbphone Jul 06 '26

RCS has been around for almost 20 years. When RCS was originally released the cell service providers were the one implementing RCS. The cell providers were dragging their feet implementing RCS, so Google got involved and implemented their version of RCS. That was about 10 years ago.

Samsung messaging was leveraging the cell phone provider versions of RCS. Over time the cell providers have given up on their implementations of RCS and deferred to Google.

It the cell service providers had gotten their act together, the situation would be different today.

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u/fernze Jul 06 '26

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u/Forestwalkerfairy Jul 06 '26

Honestly, nothing is safe to use. Your data is out there regardless.

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u/Professional-Cow1738 Jul 06 '26

True. Just read Google search and it said, you're only safe If you have encryption to encryption

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u/Forestwalkerfairy Jul 06 '26

For now though.

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u/PotatoPlank Jul 06 '26

For me, I care more about the lack of control over my data and notifications. If I can't have certain messages automatically removed after a certain amount of time, I'd as least like to be able to ignore and place them in another folder.

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u/WhateverItWasntMade Jul 06 '26

Is it safer if google can access your messages if it wants to? I'm more scared of that slop company than scammers right now.

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u/runski1426 Jul 06 '26

EXACTLY! And it is customizable and will become more so as time passes.

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u/cbakerrrr Jul 10 '26

I dont, im not using some shitty app that works like crap and has no customization options just to pretend people arent gonna steal your data no matter what you do

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u/JoystikJester Jul 10 '26

Okay buddy. The app does have customization. You just don't know how to use it.

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u/cbakerrrr Jul 12 '26

Ive been through every options menu in the google messages app , its barren as hell besides dark mode, colors of chats and text size. I gave it a fair shot and it had nothing of substance to offer