Google takes first major step for E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps (APK teardown)
Google takes first major step for E2EE interoperability across all messaging apps (APK teardown)
Google’s work could encourage the adoption of MLS, much as it did with RCS.
How can you say what Google has done is "encouraging RCS"? They literally monopolised it.
What??
The RCS API on Android is only available to Google Messages and whomever Google allows (like Samsung Messages when they existed). This is the reality.
If the RCS API was truly open there would be an explosion of FOSS alternatives to Google's spyware.
RCS has been around since 2010
15 years and it's still problematic? Sounds like something that just needs to be let go.
Stop pushing this garbage that's tied to hardware/sim/phone number on us. What value is that for the end user, seriously? Why would an end user today want a messenger that's tied to a phone number?
Fully-functional, cross-platform, network-based, open-source instant messaging has been available (even on mobile) since 2009, maybe earlier.
What I always ask about RCS: who benefits today from a messaging system that's hard-bound to a phone number?
How about we just get people to switch apps
With you.
Fuck RCS. It's trash. Who benefits from a messenger, in the 21st century, that's tied to a phone number?