This is genuine; the PR messages are for businesses and shareholders; especially for publically traded companies, they have to be Very Careful with what they say in public.
Except this has nothing to do with Google, almost all SMS users would be fine with plain SMS without RCS, nobody force them to use RCS. That's just very poor made up excuse why not offer simple SMS functionality. SMS is not depreciated in favor of RCS, they coexist.
This is genuine; the PR messages are for businesses and shareholders; especially for publically traded companies, they have to be Very Careful with what they say in public.
Signal is not a publicly traded company and does not have shareholders; it's a non-profit.
What they said was outrageous, "Google is screwing us and screwing you" would have been received more warmly.
Except this has nothing to do with Google, almost all SMS users would be fine with plain SMS without RCS, nobody force them to use RCS. That's just very poor made up excuse why not offer simple SMS functionality. SMS is not depreciated in favor of RCS, they coexist.