... is it possible to do any kind of business and/or have regular conversations without having to use whatsapp as a main way of communication?

If you'd like you can say in what country you're living.

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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I'm in the US and we use SMS instead of any specific app. It's a pretty shitty protocol, but it's at least not tied to any company.

Maybe in 2040 we'll get an upgraded protocol when companies megacorps actually decide to try and bridge protocols.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Modern Android devices already use RCS, we just need Apple to get on board.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    Apple is well known for their love of open standards, of course…

    Edit: I really wish they would. I have an iPhone and cannot stand how they hold back multimedia messages when non-Apple phones are included.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago*

    Unfortunately, iMessage's proprietary format is far more common than RCS in the US, it works better than RCS, and apple makes a lot of money using it to keep people tied to their ecosystem, so it's unlikely anything is going to change without government action

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Though I wouldn't say Androids get it. More like Google Messages and a very few select apps get RCS. It's a standard protocol in theory. In practice, not so much. I think there's like 3 total apps. You'll probably never see a FOSS RCS app, or one that isn't tied to a big corp. Server implentations of RCS also aren't standard, but most use Google Jibe.

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