As the rest of the world has proven, cross-platform messaging is achievable — even without RCS

I’m just sitting here frustrated because I’m wanting my family to move away from messaging me over SMS (they mainly use iOS), but they refuse to download any extra apps. But Google’s RCS really doesn’t look like a solution either since it mainly just seems to be a way of enforcing Android as an ecosystem, and they don’t even make RCS available for 3rd party apps to use either.

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago
    • Google creates a cross platform iMessage competitor
    • Only nerds know about it because Google didn’t market it
    • Google gets upset that no one is using their cross platform iMessage competitor
    • Google cancels their cross platform iMessage competitor
    • repeat

    For me, Allo was the last straw. Hangouts before it. Google Voice before it. Google talk before it.

    fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again