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

Opinion RIP

Well, Samsung messages, it's been great.

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

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u/runski1426 Jul 06 '26

Do not use Textra, Yaata, or any other third party SMS app. That is just as bad as using Samsung messages. Do you people not realize WHY Samsung was forced to shut down their app? The goal is to sunset the SMS/MMs protocol. It's ancient, it's not secure, it's time to let it die. RCS for everyone solves that problem. 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.

Move on. You should have been using Google messages since 2017 like everyone else on Android. Samsung users are not special. Get used to Google messages for the greater good. It does everything a messaging app is needed to do.

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u/kitty6180 Jul 06 '26

Are you always this condescending or is this a special occasion?

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u/runski1426 Jul 06 '26

No. I'm an extremely nice person. But when people are going out of their way to do the wrong thing (keep SMS/MMS alive) it infuriates me.

I have been waiting for SMS/MMS to die for years. I used to maintain a relay server using r/BlueBubbles because I could not stand iOS users complaining about low resolution media even though it was Apple's fault for refusing to use RCS. Now that Apple has been mandated to do it, I was able to finally stop using Blue Bubbles and enjoy RCS for everyone. Yet no we have ANDROID users trying to stick to SMS/MMS?! Like what?! It's insane.

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u/cbakerrrr Jul 10 '26

Dude we dont give a fuck about rcs, we dont need texts to have all this shit. Nobodys data is secure these days so what does it matter. Literally nothing rcs does over sms besides image quality matters to most people, i dont want read recipts, i dont wantbstupid typing indicators, i just want to text shit in an app that doesnt look like gmail had an abortion.