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yet google keeps touting it as an “open” standard
Isn’t Google Messages tied to an account?
Couldn’t they just block the accounts that are spamming?
Why the hell does this have to be about the phone’s “integrity”?
It’s genuinely disgusting how Google talks about unlocked bootloaders and rooting. They talk about it like Apple talks about side loading apps: some offensive, gross aberration of their beautiful ecosystem, when what they’re talking about is their own customers using their own device how they like.
So Google is shit, Apple is shit… What’s the option here? Is there any way to realistically avoid either of them?
Why must we deal with this duopoly over the most important device in our lives?
It is ironic that google touts RCS as a “open platform”, when you have to use google’s implementation of it.
Signal, Telegram, why use SMS or RCS?
The majority of the people I text are non-nerds. To them, it just sounds like “I’m special, so if you want to text me, I need you to download this app you’ve never heard of instead of the feature your phone comes with, that you use for everyone else, and that works with Siri.”
No one should have to.
It’s ridiculous how far we’ve allowed this vendor lock in shit to get. Apple and Google should both be hit over the head repeatedly until they open the messaging up.
SMS had many issues but the ease with which one person could reach another was a genuine benefit for communication. And we’ve let these companies take us away from that. It’s absolute bullshit.