Is RCS an open standard? I’ve seen some people say it is and others it isn’t and now I’m very confused. Can you please give me a definitive answer?

  • lemmyvoreEnglish
    10•9 months ago

    That’s fair but that also means their “RCS” is really just a name they slapped on their latest proprietary messaging platform.

    We know they’ve been trying to get ahead in the messenger game for many years, now maybe they figured if they use the RCS angle it might get some traction.

    Or maybe I’m completely off, who knows. Google’s approach to messaging has always baffled me. They could have had a ton of traction and market share by now if they’d have just stuck with one. Why they keep tearing them down and building another one, and why they think this latest one will do any better, I have no idea.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•9 months ago

      You can interoperate with googles RCS.
      If you are willing and able to enter a partnership like Samsung, you can do it fully (including encryption support etc).

      Google are determined to not make it easy, and I agree with you, it appears to be yet another messaging land grab.

      Trying to put myself in their headspace for a moment, one justification for making it hard is to stop thousands of apps coming out declaring “full RCS support!” through the APIs, then screwing the pooch (through poor security or deliberate back doors or or or).
      Right now Google are desperately attempting to make RCS happen, after almost a decade of trying and failing to make various carriers play ball.
      They do not want any bad press about how feature poor/insecure/slow/buggy it is right now.