Comment by crop_rotation
2 years ago
It is extremely useless compared to Whatsapp/Signal. It is not even natively supported in android like SMS. Even in android the only app that supports it is Google Messages (unlike several for SMS). Nobody supports the protocol and everyone uses Google's implementation. Google's client, Google's servers, optional encryption. What is good about it. The only reason for it's existence is to make Google get a leg in the messaging clients after failures with their previous attempts (Gtalk, hangouts, allo). That is why nobody outside the USA would ever bother using it.
It doesn't do anything that Whatsapp/Signal don't. And there is nothing native about it in Android, other than Google Messages is force installed on all devices, and the rich vibrant ecosystem of android SMS clients was killed off to make way for it.
If RCS is so bad, then maybe Apple can work with Google to design a better protocol.
Why? People are free to download hundreds of apps to talk to each other. The Signal protocol is so widely adopted. Matrix is a well designed protocol. Why should Apple and Google be the ones dictating messaging protocols.
People aren't going to download some random app just to talk to you, nor will you be able to convince your whole family (who all use FaceTime/iMessage) to use something else just to include you.