I still wonder why Google even cares about this and then why it’s pushing so hard. I don’t trust Google.
Google cared because they wanted to offer private and secure messaging for the not-Apple community and no one else was willing to take on the effort and expense. Now that Google figured out how to offer it all over the world, and developed the structure and support, the carriers want in too. Nothing prevented it before except for those carriers doing what they could to maintain control over it to the detriment of consumers.
That is not the reason at all and not even close. The not-Apple community have plenty of choices of messaging services that are secure and private with E2EE. And many of them have more features than Google RCS, are free to use and works with-in the Apple community. Google is not offering anything to the not-Apple community, that are not already available to them, for years now.
What Google wants is for Android users to use Google Messages as their goto messaging service. Right now, only Google Messages offer RCS with E2EE using Google version of RCS. Google have not allow any other Android messaging service, except Samsung through a special deal, to have E2EE using Google version of RCS. That the E2EE protocol is not included in Open Source Android because Google version of RCS is not a standard with-in the telecommunication community. RCS is a standard and the telecommunication community have not yet standardized E2EE. The only way for the telecommunication community to offer E2EE with RCS is to use Google servers to host their RCS messages. And only Google Messages is capable of E2EE with RCS. Which would mean that any telecommunication company that wants to offer RCS with E2EE, must use Google Messages as the default client messaging app on all Android phones. Even their own messaging app would not have E2EE and Google Messages will still handle SMS.
If Google was the least bit concern about the privacy and security of the not-Apple community messaging services, they would allow all Android messaging services to offer Google RCS with E2EE. But Google don't want Android messaging services like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram others to be able offer Google RCS with E2EE because this would mean Android users could use any Android messaging service to open Google RCS E2EE messages that their carrier has adopted. Google only wants Google Messages to have E2EE with RCS and that's the way it is now.
Even with as many telecom companies that have adopted Google version of RCS, SMS is still the telecom standard. And even now, with all telecoms that have adopted Google RCS, more messages are sent by SMS that RCS. This because SMS is a true standard that is on every mobile phone. Doctors sending a reminder to patients about an appointment do not have to worry about which messaging service to use, in order for their patients to receive the reminder. Send it SMS and they will receive it with the messaging app that comes preinstalled with every mobile phone connected to a carrier network. Even an iPhone. No need to use any other messaging app. Walgreens don't need to learn how to send text messages with all the popular messaging services, in order to send a simple text message that a prescription is ready to be picked up.
SMS is siill a big money maker for the telecoms. SMS is still being vastly used by businesses to reach as many mobile phone owners as possible with advertisiing or simple messages. Most don't need any more what SMS offers. SMS will be the standard for many more years because the telecoms don't want to lose the revenue SMS stills brings in, because to Google wants to offer RCS to everyone, for free.
This post is so bad. You have confidence in what you say but you make moot points. First off Imessage doesn't work with any other E2EE service either. Also both android and apple support most of the same services that use E2EE. So you're saying because we have all these disconnected services that don't work with each other; Apple is fine to ignore improvement because the features are not always matching. So moot. First off, Apple would never get rid of iMessage, adding support to another messaging protocol does not reduce the others functionality. It only adds functionality between devices.
Yeah but we have like kik, telegram, and other stuff so why do we need to improve right? You're complaining about google not accepting these into their RCS protocol but do see apple supporting those with iMessage. Stop being such a hypocrite.
SMS lol. Don't even get me started on how silly your thoughts are. All I'm going to say is supporting RCS has nothing to do with maintaining support for SMS. Another moot point. You want to know why so many SMS messages are sent? Probably not all those android's and iphones text each other in SMS because they have to. Also why are you defending the profits of a telecomms company? You're post is like -5/10 on the genius scale. I actually had to create an forum account just so I could vent about how bad this whole explanation is.
Do you work for Apple? That might explain it the genius levels.
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