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

Steve Hayes wrote:

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

Yes, that's how RCS works (either in Google Messages or Samsung Messages and soon on Apple) but without needing an additional account, it uses your phone number as ID, has fallback to SMS if your correspondent isn't reachable by RCS.