• undrwater
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    1 month ago

    Is RCS hosted by the carriers? If not, how to make the end run around Google?

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      1 month ago

      Some carriers do, some never did, and some did but gave up. In the end if they want wide deliverability they’ll have to connect to Google’s hubs (servers).

      It is annoying that Google doesn’t provide an API for RCS as they do for SMS and MMS.

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        1 month ago

        Only system apps can offer RCS support, so there has been essentially no 3rd party apps for it, just Google’s and from a few OEMs like Samsung

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          And…I guess, graphene?

          That seems to be outside of their wheelhouse (intentionally), and it makes me nervous.