• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    And it’s still tied to your phone number!

    Why would I want another messenger that’s tied to a phone number?

    RCS is too little, too late. I’ll never use it.

    • NekkoDroid@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      Sure, the other option is having it tied to an email, which is reliant on your single vendor and is also an easier way to create an army of spam bots. Phone numbers at least are transferable between carriers.

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        6 months ago

        The email vendor doesn’t really matter though unless you are sending or receiving emails. Phone numbers require you to pay a carrier every month. And while most people have phone numbers, some don’t, especially children.

        My mum used iMessage to communicate with my sister before she got a phone number. If she switched to Android, I guess there’s Google Chat, but you know how Google is with their chat apps.

        Ideally you’d be able to choose between phone number OR email. Like iMessage.

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          6 months ago

          If she switched to Android, I guess there’s Google Chat, but you know how Google is with their chat apps.

          That’s far from the only option. I can think of half a dozen relatively mainstream options off the top of my head (Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, Discord, Matrix, Skype), though I think the first three still want a phone number. There are many more.

          The trouble is getting people to agree on one.

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      6 months ago

      It’s the natural evolution of SMS. And SMS does what no messaging app does, it lets me send a text message to any mobile number without having to wonder whether the other party has installed the same app as me.

      When I make phone calls, it’s between me, the person I’m calling and our carriers. I want it to be the same for text messages.