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Re:Google Is Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout by dbbk on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:35PM (#20208022)
* Phone number-as-identity is so stupid, even apple admitted it

iMessage automatically working with phone numbers was the main reason it catapulted to such high usage so quickly. People didn't have to change their workflow, they just got brought into it automatically.

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Re:Google Is Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout by earenndil on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @02:31AM (#20210226)
There is a mapping from phone number to identity, but the phone number isn't itself the identity.
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Re:Google Is Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout by dmitrygr on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:35AM (#20210475)
For rcs it is
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Re:Google Is Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout by earenndil on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @04:16AM (#20210631)
Parent was talking about imessage.
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