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From: Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: RCS messaging
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 12:19:42 -0700
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Android 15, Google Pixel 8a, Google Messages and Google's camera app

A couple of months ago I turned on RCS chats. There are a couple of 
downsides, but I wonder if there are any upsides.

Bad -- None of these happened till I turned RCS chats on:
1. When I enclose a photo in a text, text and photo are transmitted 
as two separate messages. The same happens when someone encloses a 
photo in a message to me: it's two separate messages.

2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for 
forwarding but the text is discarded.

3. If I start a text, then take a photo and share it with the 
intended recipient of the text, Messages throws away the text I 
typed. 

4. When someone _starts_ typing a response to a text I sent, I get 
the sound for a received text, and then I don't know whether to wait 
for them to finish and hit send, or go back to what I was doing and 
then get interrupted again when they do.

5. Senders' emojis or likes are transformed into some very 
distracting animations.

Good -- What am I missing?

-- 
Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA         https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...