Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square32linkfedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down18
arrow-up159arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square32linkfedilink
minus-squareBlake (he/him) @beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 months agoGoogle should open it up for other apps to use. Otherwise RCS is a power grab
minus-squarejcarax@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoYup, no way I’m enabling play services and installing Messages just to use RCS. I mostly use Signal, anyway. What we should really be fighting for is more federation between messaging platforms.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 months agoFederation can be hard since you also need to protect privacy With that bring said they could at least try. Honestly it would be better if we got some sort of RFC.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoIt is abuse of the dualopoly
Google should open it up for other apps to use. Otherwise RCS is a power grab
Yup, no way I’m enabling play services and installing Messages just to use RCS. I mostly use Signal, anyway.
What we should really be fighting for is more federation between messaging platforms.
Federation can be hard since you also need to protect privacy
With that bring said they could at least try. Honestly it would be better if we got some sort of RFC.
It is abuse of the dualopoly