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From: David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Carriers are only slowly adapting to iOS 18 beta RCS integration
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:34:07 +0100
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On 28/06/2024 10:00, Andy Burns wrote:
> Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> 
>> RCS is not adding any value to the communication options.
> For some of us (edge cases perhaps) it will.
> 
> I use android, as do the majority of my friends/colleagues, but a 
> minority use iphone.  I refuse to use Messenger/WhatsApp, 

Then you will be left out in the cold. I have Telegram but I would 
rather not.

>they've never 
> heard of Signal/Telegram.
> 

Even if they had you are about as likely to get them to change as the 
Pope is to marry his boyfriend.

> The only ways I can send them photos is MMS (which is expensive, so I 
> only do it rarely) or email, which some of them don't have on their 
> phones ... RCS does add value in that case.


I have never heard of RCS and have no intention of enabling it....


Dave