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Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 13:50:16 -0700
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On 2024-07-08 13:44, Andrew wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote on Mon, 8 Jul 2024 20:48:26 +0200 :
> 
>>> How can you send and receive messages with those devices?
>>
>> Any messaging platform will require some kind of login. And an SMS
>> replacement messaging platform will require a phone number associated,
>> thus a SIM card active.
> 
> Hi Carlos,
> 
> When you use "some kind of login", what I mean by a login/password account
> on an Internet server is specifically setting up an account on the phone to
> that mothership server (e.g., to Google) which is not required on Android.

That's not what you meant when this discussion commenced.

> 
> As Andy noted, plenty of people are incredibly stupid so they do set up a
> login/password to Google servers on their phone - but it's never required.
> 
> Hell, I must have dozens of Google email addresses and I get my mail on
> Android just fine *without* setting up a login/password to a Google account
> on my phone. But I know how a phone works. Most people are clueless.
> 
> The connection to the cellular provider is a completely different thing
> than is the connection to an Internet server by the way.
> 
> If you can't tell the difference, no wonder you're saying what you did.
> 
> The fact is that an Android phone works fine WITHOUT setting up a
> login/password to a server on the Internet - whether you know that or not.
> 
> 1. I have no Internet account set up on my phone
> 2. And my phone makes & receives calls just fine
> 3. And it makes & receives SMS/MMS texts just fine
> 
> Hell, even the dumb-terminal Apple devices can make & receive SMS/MMS texts
> just fine without the user having to log into Apple's mothership servers.
> 
> In summary, anyone claiming the mothership Internet account/password is
> required doesn't understand even the simplest of the basics of Android.