Maybe Google can work with Google on implementing a user-level API for Android so manufacturers don’t have a monopoly on RCS apps.
This. They haven’t opened up the RCS stuff till now on Android to other apps.
They won’t. It’s part of their “slowly-closed-source-all-of-Android” plan. The old messaging app used to be part of AOSP and you could read the source, how delightful that was.
Would be a good time for a contender to start the third OS. In a few years, more of the population would have interest enough that it might actually get traction.
They have abandoned the app and multitudes of others in favour to their closed source apps. Multiple Open Source apps exists to fill the gaps though.
Fucking A. I hate using Googles shitty messaging app, and maybe I would have more than 2 other rcs users in my contacts if the 3rd parties could implement it.
And hopefully everything becomes a standard so people on both operating systems can leverage these features together
let us have rcs with google messages when we link our google fi account or let us get our visual voicemails in the google dialler already :(
the only reason i link my account and turn off rcs is for visual voicemails on the web since the stock voicemail app is rubbish
If Apple has to work with Google to implementat a protocol existing since ~2008 we know there is something off.
Any bets on which implements RCS first, iOS or Google Voice?
