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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by kcb on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:18PM (#29901072)
Neither does SMS...
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Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful by threeseed on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:44PM (#29901236)
The difference is that SMS is a dumb, text-only format with no features. And so it made it easy for people to switch to WhatsApp, iMessage etc as they could easily offer compelling features.

RCS has a lot of those compelling features and so would be able to take market share away from those proprietary apps.

Great right ? Well no because RCS is unencrypted specifically so that carriers and governments can read your messages.

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