Re: Samsung no longer shipping with Samsung Messages in the USA

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:50:13 -0500, Harry S Robins
<stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> wrote:

https://www.sammobile.com/news/samsung-messages-not-pre-installed-galaxy-phones-usa/
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Samsung has been shipping its Galaxy phones and tablets with its in-house
Messages app for years, but the company has stopped doing that recently in
some markets. The Samsung Messages app no longer comes pre-installed on the
company's new smartphones, at least in the USA.
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The writing has been on the wall for this move since 2022 when Samsung
started shipping its phones with Google Messages as the default messaging
app in some regions. While the company shipped its phones with Samsung
Messages pre-installed, it wasn't the default messaging option. This was
around the same time Google started focusing on RCS.

I have a coule of Samsung phones (one smart, the other not) and I
assumed they used the same messaging system to use the provider's SMS,
which one has to pray for.

Are you talking about that, or something else -- messages over the
Internet, like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and others? 

Or like Blackberry, which used to have their own proprietary messaging
service?


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