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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 23:32:06 +0200
Organization: Camembert Normand aus Lait Cru
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On 01.04.25 21:19, Stan Brown wrote:
> 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?

Absolutely inferior security and privacy which is not obvious at the
beginning.

RCS is an act of defiance from Google because they never got a real
emessenger flying.

You better use the infamous Signal which is really good in any respect.
Less so Telegram and the houswife and teeny app WhatsApp.

You are to a certain degree dependent of what your friends an relatives
are using anyway. BTW: iPhone users do not appreciate RCS messages at all.



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