Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?
Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp?
... is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?
If you'd like you can say in what country you're living.
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I'm in the US and we use SMS instead of any specific app. It's a pretty shitty protocol, but it's at least not tied to any company.
Maybe in 2040 we'll get an upgraded protocol when companies megacorps actually decide to try and bridge protocols.
Modern Android devices already use RCS, we just need Apple to get on board.
Apple is well known for their love of open standards, of course…
Edit: I really wish they would. I have an iPhone and cannot stand how they hold back multimedia messages when non-Apple phones are included.
Unfortunately, iMessage's proprietary format is far more common than RCS in the US, it works better than RCS, and apple makes a lot of money using it to keep people tied to their ecosystem, so it's unlikely anything is going to change without government action
Though I wouldn't say Androids get it. More like Google Messages and a very few select apps get RCS. It's a standard protocol in theory. In practice, not so much. I think there's like 3 total apps. You'll probably never see a FOSS RCS app, or one that isn't tied to a big corp. Server implentations of RCS also aren't standard, but most use Google Jibe.
That's exactly what I was getting at