Re:Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal
by izacus on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:29AM
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RCS might be a federated standard, but before Google not even Verizon at AT&T wanted to federate.
Re:Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal
by phh on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @08:56AM
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Not sure why you'd say "not even Verizon". Verizon is literally the worst carrier worldwide (ok maybe after NTT) with regards to interoperability.
Re:Tell HN: I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal
by asveikau on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:06PM
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I think they're saying that the two biggest US carriers didn't want to interoperate.
Which is insane. An SMS replacement where Verizon and AT&T users cannot message each other is insane.
2. That's not a requirement even though Google does their best to kill all alternative implementations. (Samsung had one, but Google paid them a lot of money to get rid of it. I have to admit I don't know who is left with their own RCS client)
> So, RCS is not a replacement for SMS.
It's 100% a replacement to SMS, it's literally defined in the same spec as SMS over LTE, as an upgrade to SMS. Though yeah Google made it, this... uh... thing. RCS is technically a federated standard, but Google killed every part of the federation and some parts of the standard.