I’ve only used RCS a few times a my MIL has patchy data in her flat. The problem I have with it is that it’s baked into the same app as SMS, so you’re not really sure if you’re going to be sending an SMS or RCS message until you go into the chat and it says whether it’s available. And I don’t trust that it’s always going to work as RCS - I certainly don’t want it falling back to SMS if it fails.
With WhatsApp or Telegram, you know exactly what’s happening.
I’ve only used RCS a few times a my MIL has patchy data in her flat. The problem I have with it is that it’s baked into the same app as SMS, so you’re not really sure if you’re going to be sending an SMS or RCS message until you go into the chat and it says whether it’s available. And I don’t trust that it’s always going to work as RCS - I certainly don’t want it falling back to SMS if it fails.
With WhatsApp or Telegram, you know exactly what’s happening.
I think it’s meant to appeal to the US who I believe still use SMS a lot. If you’re still using SMS, I guess having it switch over to RCS is a bonus.
If you usually use WhatsApp, having a message go through as an SMS is a PITA.