Re: Encryption comes to RCS at last on iPhones.

Marion wrote:

when I last asked Andy what he pined for in RCS, it was "net-based"
texting (SMS/MMS) because of how they're charged for texts in the UK.

Since apple implemented RCS, I haven't 'hounded' my iPhone-using friends to upgrade/enable it, but they do seem to be doing it.
If the RCS 3.0 protocol exists, there's no reason for Google to stick with their proprietary encryption, so it feels like once apple and google have been through a round of upgrades, we will get interoperability (which we already have) with encryption (which we don't) ...