Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS?

fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• scholar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was never ‘Google locked’, its an open standard developed by the GSM Association that IOS has supported since 2024.

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  • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    All RCS goes through google servers, they have to approve the devices. Graphene OS and e/os can’t use RCS

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not true, network carriers can also run RCS backends independently of Google. Graphene OS is currently working on a new messaging app that supports RCS without Google services. Both the app and the carrier have to support RCS which is why Google made their own backend.

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