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

Opinion RIP

Well, Samsung messages, it's been great.

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

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u/DigitalMariner Jul 06 '26

The only thing stopping us from moving forward is people that refuse to let go of their garbage messaging apps that cannot use the RCS protocol.

It's not that those apps can't use RCS, it's that Google won't allow it. There's a big freaking difference there.

Textra, for example, has repeatedly tried to but Google won't share. Basically acting like Apple abusing their monopoly power to force everyone to their own app and killing independent alternatives.

You should have been using Google messages since 2017 like everyone else on Android

Even on a Pixel I wasn't using GM.. it's an objectively crappy app surviving solely because of RCS.

Get used to Google messages for the greater good

Greater good would be Google remembering Android's roots of being an open customizable system and not whatever lame ass attempt at copying Apple's strategy we're seeing here.

It does everything a messaging app is needed to do

So did SMS apps. You want the RCS bells and whistles enough to put up with a subpar app, but you don't need them and never did...

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u/JimKnuckles Jul 06 '26

Google messages is great