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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  1. Most Android phones use RCS, so it's on-subject here since most of us don't pay attention to iPhone news - and is welcomed news because of #2's answer

  2. You ever been in a low or no signal area, but have wifi, and try to text an iPhone user? Ever try to send/receive photos/videos with an iPhone and they look like garbage? Tired of getting SMS's in group chats of "Mom loved 'Please poop in the toilet next time, we are tired of cleaning it up'" instead of it just "hearting" the SMS message? A lot of new tech coming out today started from something that "was good" and was built on to make it better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've had to turn off RCS because, when you don't have WiFi/great cellular data access, you can't do shit. I couldn't even open the messages app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The thing about SMS is that it sometimes worked in low signal situations where voice and internet didn't get through. That is a virtue that shouldn't be given up easily. If anything its reliability should be enhanced. It's fine to also support a fancier chat scheme as well, but a robust, 1-to-1 text-only mode is important.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At least with Google messages, you can still send normal SMS if your RCS chat can't go through. I think there's an option for it to automatically resend as SMS if RCS fails, too.

I guess there's no way of knowing if SMS will eventually drop out of fashion, but it would be good to keep around so it probably will stay around as a back up

Edit: well, I didn't see the other response say basically what I said, oops

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds good, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, I haven't seen any of them say they are doing away with SMS. Even Android who has RCS in place also has SMS along side it, RCS is just an enhancement.

Even with RCS on both major platforms in the near future, a lot of automations and companies will continue to utilize SMS, and I'd bet that's true for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ah ok. I only use SMS in very basic ways, so if it's going to stay around then I'm glad. Thanks.