Re: RCS messaging

On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 18:36:24 +0100, Andy Burns wrote :

RCS/MLS in Messages will be the death of the independent apps

 
I suppose that depends if google exposeds MLS functionality through an
API, I can't see any evidence they will, there's little enough RCS
exposed by API.

I agree with you. Your point, understandably so, is that Google Messages
with RCS/MLS (along with Apple Messages with it too), is nirvana for you.

While I certainly applaud that finally, everyone can do two things:
a. Communicate with the "default" messaging app with everyone, and,
b. Do that securely over either the Internet (RCS/MLS) or not (SMS/MMS).

That part is all good.

The part I am worried about, but which I'm powerless to change, is that
Android may become much like the Apple ecosystem in that there will likely
be only one "default" messenger, in a practical sense.

Worse than there being only one (practical) default messenger is that the
messenger that will be the (practical) default, will be Google's messenger.

In that sense, Android is moving to the subterranean cave that Apple
designed in that everyone is forced to use the monopolistic messenger app.

Hence, you can understand why I ask you, and everyone else who is
intelligent, to look out, for my sake, for a non-Google messenger app in
the future which implements RCS/MLS. Let me know if you ever find one!

Or at least, if not for me, do it for our grand kids' sake! :)