It took what feels like an eternity for RCS to gain any traction. Let's have a quick 15th birthday party and look into the future.
  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I guess it depends on how you define “worse”. With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There’s a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can’t agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.

    It’s great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I’d someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

    The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can’t figure it out.

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      If someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

      spoiler alert: They won’t.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 months ago

      SMS “failover”, just two comments above. https://lemmy.world/comment/6102361

      I see this failover failure every single day when people talk about RCS.

      This is unacceptable.

      Also, since when do you have to “check” a messenger? That’s what notifications are for.

      • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        since when do you have to “check” a messenger? That’s what notifications are for.

        Until your phone dings literally several times per minute, then you’ll deactivate them real quick.