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Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs
(www.androidauthority.com)
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So I read that the RCS Apple wants to implement isn't exactly the RCS Google is using.
My hope is that once Apple starts using (a hopefully open standard) RCS, then everyone will switch to that and everyone everywhere can communicate securely.
That's not how Apple works at all. They have had iMessage for a long while now and refuse to open up the technology. They want to monopolize the communications so that they can keep controlling it.
My guess is they are just trying to sabotage any attempts at an open standard.
Sadly, you make a good point. They will probably develop their own RCS servers and let others connect to that.
I would be surprised if that happened. As we learned in the Apple v. Epic case (we all suspected before hand but was confirmed) Apple has kept I message closed so that parents wouldn't "buy cheaper android phones for their kids".
The strategy that has a proven track record, like the currently wildly popular BlackBerry Messenger.
We can do it right now without the need to please phone operator, device manufacturer and OS developer to add support for a protocol that does not even have E2EE standardized yet.