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[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Imagine cross-platform RCS support built into Signal. πŸ₯ΉπŸ’­

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man that would be nice. Could finally have it be all in one again like Google Hangouts before it was killed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I still miss Hangouts + Voice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Same I legit think it could've been Google's actual competition to iMessage but they fumbled the bag so badly it's crazy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh that'd be nice but since no more SMS in Signal I can't see it going back in (unless they reversed course?)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC their point was that SMS is insecure, so they don't want people using SMS in Signal to think that this is Signal. With RCS, they could do what Apple will - be interoperable while providing extras with own platform (iMessage).

Admittedly, that doesn't sound like enough reason to reimplement SMS and RCS alone would still be kind of inconvenient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

they could go the apple route and just make sms messages an ugly color

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not have separate apps so users can opt to install one or the other?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do you use two apps for SMS or iMessage now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand. I don't do that. But I have Whatsapp, telegram, signal and discord installed, and those are all quite separate apps.

The point being, why would I want my Whatsapp install to come integrated with a whole discord client? I can already just install both, which is much easier and keeps things separate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The point is getting adoption. Especially in the US, where people actually use iPhone, no one wants to download a second app because iMessage is 'good enough' 99% of the time.