Re: RCS messaging

On 01.04.25 21:19, Stan Brown wrote:

Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app
 
A couple of months ago I turned on RCS chats. There are a couple of
downsides, but I wonder if there are any upsides.
 
Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on:
1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted
as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a
photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages.
 
2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
forwarding but the text is discarded.
 
3. If I start a text, then take a photo and share it with the
intended recipient of the text, Messages throws away the text I
typed.
 
4. When someone _starts_ typing a response to a text I sent, I get
the sound for a received text, and then I don't know whether to wait
for them to finish and hit send, or go back to what I was doing and
then get interrupted again when they do.
 
5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very
distracting animations.
 
Good -- What am I missing?

Absolutely inferior security and privacy which is not obvious at the
beginning.

RCS is an act of defiance from Google because they never got a real
emessenger flying.

You better use the infamous Signal which is really good in any respect.
Less so Telegram and the houswife and teeny app WhatsApp.

You are to a certain degree dependent of what your friends an relatives
are using anyway. BTW: iPhone users do not appreciate RCS messages at all.



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