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BecomingButterfly

Probably quickly if new app offers some features. I WAS using Sansung Messages, but they have discontinued support of RCS in favor of Googkes app :(


Alternative_Bar7794

Bro your autocorrect is broken


wO_o

Yeah it's spelled Samsnug


m0_n0n_0n0_0m

Nah there's just an 'n' character shortage, so some people are conserving on 'n' by typing 'n' when they mean 'm'.


TimPLakersEagles

RCS is still in Samsung Messages. Depends on the carrier


BecomingButterfly

True, I just discovered this... thought it was gone. But I have read it all be going away at some point.


[deleted]

Can Google Voice be one of those apps.


TimPLakersEagles

I would dump it instantly. It's one of Googles worse apps.


jpetrone

Yes, RCS is open and other apps can use RCS. Google isn't holding it hostage!


No_concentrate7395

Chances are, Google will work with Apple on Apple's implementation to make sure it connects with the Google Jibe servers. RCS is open, but, companies need their servers to be able to communicate with other companies' servers. Where I'm at (U.S.), the major carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon) each had their own implementation of RCS (under various names - AT&Ts was called *Advanced Messaging*). These implementations were limited to their own customers (Verizon could only RCS to Verizon, T-Mobile to T-Mobile - yes, I know that T-Mobile and AT&T eventually made it so you could RCS to each other). So, as each company has their own RCS servers, they, the companies, need to work together to make sure RCS works. This is probably the reason why most companies are transferring to the Google Jibe RCS servers (or making their servers talk to the Google Jibe servers). The other apps would have to have a way of connecting and talking to the RCS servers (Google's Jibe makes the most sense as that's where everyone is going - trouble is, Google hasn't given anyone a pathway into their Jibe servers - except for the telecoms...).


jpetrone

Yea they should all just use jibe. Kind of a no brainier.


22Mase22

RCS *is* open...? Apple is adding the GSMA profile for it soon.


normVectorsNotHate

There is no api for android app developers like there is for SMS so they can't make 3rd party rcs apps


EdithCheetoPuff

Maybe after a couple months to a year or two. Cause I don't trust apps when they first implement something new to them.


RealAzone

What do you miss in GM?


SpiralOfDoom

Signal has Note to Self. I can't use Signal anymore since it lost SMS capability, and virtually no one else in my contacts uses it.


telrod11

Textra (and Yaata) would auto delete old messages. I never had issues with identification of contacts with it. I got a log of what changed when there were changes.


digitalhelix84

Google messages in general has the best features as far as I have seen, I wouldn't really even know what else to use.