Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 22 hours agoGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down15
arrow-up137arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareBlake (he/him) @beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoGoogle should open it up for other apps to use. Otherwise RCS is a power grab
minus-squarejcarax@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 hours agoYup, no way I’m enabling play services and installing Messages just to use RCS. I mostly use Signal, anyway. What we should really be fighting for is more federation between messaging platforms.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoFederation can be hard since you also need to protect privacy With that bring said they could at least try.
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoIt is abuse of the dualopoly
Google should open it up for other apps to use. Otherwise RCS is a power grab
Yup, no way I’m enabling play services and installing Messages just to use RCS. I mostly use Signal, anyway.
What we should really be fighting for is more federation between messaging platforms.
Federation can be hard since you also need to protect privacy
With that bring said they could at least try.
It is abuse of the dualopoly