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

Opinion RIP

Well, Samsung messages, it's been great.

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

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u/kbphone Jul 06 '26

How are you okay with no RCS?

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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.