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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)
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    It was never 'Google locked', its an open standard developed by the GSM Association that IOS has supported since 2024.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    All RCS goes through google servers, they have to approve the devices. Graphene OS and e/os can't use RCS

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    That's not true, network carriers can also run RCS backends independently of Google. Graphene OS is currently working on a new messaging app that supports RCS without Google services. Both the app and the carrier have to support RCS which is why Google made their own backend.

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    Exclusive to Google's texting app.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Are you sure? I definitely RCS message with friends who have iPhones.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part from the last time I looked into it (which was quite some time ago). It's not exclusive to Android/Google, but it is extremely exclusive app-wise and none of them had the feature parity of my SMS app so I didn't pursue it further at the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Support was added relatively recently, and a lot of people didn't notice. I think it also used to default to off, not sure what the current default is.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    RCS has been on iPhones a couple years. The recent update was encrypted RCS.

    I don’t know whether the implementation is still Google, but in August I noticed RCS chats now have a “lock” icon

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