Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS

Carlos E. R. wrote on Mon, 8 Jul 2024 20:48:26 +0200 :

How can you send and receive messages with those devices?

 
Any messaging platform will require some kind of login. And an SMS
replacement messaging platform will require a phone number associated,
thus a SIM card active.

Hi Carlos,

When you use "some kind of login", what I mean by a login/password account
on an Internet server is specifically setting up an account on the phone to
that mothership server (e.g., to Google) which is not required on Android.

As Andy noted, plenty of people are incredibly stupid so they do set up a
login/password to Google servers on their phone - but it's never required.

Hell, I must have dozens of Google email addresses and I get my mail on
Android just fine *without* setting up a login/password to a Google account
on my phone. But I know how a phone works. Most people are clueless.

The connection to the cellular provider is a completely different thing
than is the connection to an Internet server by the way.

If you can't tell the difference, no wonder you're saying what you did.

The fact is that an Android phone works fine WITHOUT setting up a
login/password to a server on the Internet - whether you know that or not.

1. I have no Internet account set up on my phone
2. And my phone makes & receives calls just fine
3. And it makes & receives SMS/MMS texts just fine

Hell, even the dumb-terminal Apple devices can make & receive SMS/MMS texts
just fine without the user having to log into Apple's mothership servers.

In summary, anyone claiming the mothership Internet account/password is
required doesn't understand even the simplest of the basics of Android.