Edit: NOTE, I am the receiver of the texts.
So many people asking me to have my wife do something different on her end.
Beloved, she is on iPhone because she doesn’t want to do anything “weird.” She is texting from her phone number using her texting app. That’s what’s going to happen.
Now, why can’t I get iMessage on my android phone? If it’s just a messenger app why not make it available for Android?
I’d use it.
Samsung had support before Google and Jibe… but they have abandoned their own RCS support. Simply because Google’s works on all of their devices and they don’t need to do any development to support it going forwards. Why pay for development and support for a system you don’t have to and get nothing from? No one is buying a Samsung phone for the Samsung Messages RCS capability.
Google’s RCS client works on every carrier. Samsung’s RCS client works on a small minority of carriers, most of which get their RCS servers from Google. Plus, RCS is barely encrypted (messages were sent over plaintext for the longest time, and end to end encryption is something Google had to invent).
The 4G spec should’ve made RCS support mandatory instead of optional. We wouldn’t have had this problem if it did. Then again, thanks to RCS being terrible and SMS/MMS being even worse, encrypted messenger apps managed to attract mainstream attention, which probably wouldn’t have happened had RCS succeeded.