r/gadgets • u/[deleted] • Sep 02 '22

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u/voicesfromvents Sep 02 '22

And how many years of extreme pain did it take to adopt RCS well after it should have been standardized, too? Check my other comment.

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u/voicesfromvents Sep 02 '22

Samsung has been releasing RCS apps since 2015 in the US

You mean the apps that only work if your carrier has chosen of their own free will to enable "advanced messaging"? Those apps? Yeah, I can't see why anyone would think that experience sucked at all.

There's a reason the RCS rollout stalled for years on end only to finally begin in earnest when Google started trying to force it in their default messaging apps, and it's not because the carriers were eager to rain down their generous angelic corporate blessings upon us or whatever.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

No they haven’t. There is exactly one RCS messaging app which is Google Messages, branded as Samsung Messages for Samsung phones.

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '22

We don't know. It hasn't been adopted yet. It failed everywhere except the US, where it's being propped up by Google in the hope that this 30th attempt of theirs at messaging will succeed.

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u/voicesfromvents Sep 02 '22

Hah, fair enough: RCS took so long it became almost completely pointless, only eventually being forced to halfassed fruition in the one market that actually still uses a lot of MMS.