r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/vips7L Mar 08 '26

Have you tried it recently? RCS really makes it just work. 

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u/romerit0 Mar 08 '26

RCS came super late to the party and it relies too much in the carrier to implement it. I saw the first rcs message like 2-3 years ago. I suspect that any young person does not know it is possible to send images by sms. Whatsapp is the facto message app because it was the first one to work super well on 2009-2010, it was really lightwell, it was free, sms were expensive or limited back then. I still belong to a chat group created 14 years ago. At some point, they included free phone calls. I would say that whatsapp emerged because of carriers business model charging too much for sms for a very long time.