• Takumidesh@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But they didn’t implement rcs, which isn’t even new, android messaging has supported rcs for four years. Rcs as a whole is 15 years old.

    If the plan was to implement rcs, they could have done that during the phase out of sms. But just removing one of the key features that helped people adopt signal (a feature which no other real messaging app did since the dissolution of Google hangouts), with no plan or consumer messaging about a replacement, and basically no real reasoning communicated to the end user is a pretty bad decision regardless of a ‘we know best’ mentality.

    • FarLine99@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      Regarding RCS. If they are going to add RCS support, it will be through Google’s API with Signal protocol for encryption (as I understand it). But Google hasn’t published it yet. That’s why RCS is not implemented. The Signal developers, looking from the user side, weren’t thrilled with the idea either. For example Greyson, one of the Android app developers, used it for 6 years for SMS. But I think we need more of a good messenger with support for a lot of features more than we need SMS support…