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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: 3 Apr 2025 12:00:46 GMT
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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 3 Apr 2025 08:37:04 +0200, J�rg Lorenz
> <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> >On 03.04.25 05:52, sms wrote:
[...]
> >> The e-mail to SMS and e-mail to MMS gateways are very useful. I didn't 
> >> think that there would be an e-mail to RCS gateway.
> >
> >Is it really? In other parts of the world where mobile communication is
> >more advanced than in the US such a service is completely unknown
> 
> Then in this regard, the communication outside the US and Canada (and
> the rest of Latin America, I suspect) is less advanced. 

  As said many times before, in the rest of the world, it's not needed,
because better methods - Instant Messaging (WhatsApp, Signal, etc.) have
been available for a long time.

  Because - for some weird 'reason' - IM has not been widely adapted in
the US - at least not on Android -, USAsians still settle for the old
SMS/MMS method. So the US is indeed less advanced, and by their own
choice.

> > and I
> >cannot see how that could be useful.
> 
> Let's say you are using your computer and you want to send a message to
> a cellphone. 

  Just use Skype ... Oops! :-) Or the Windows 'My Phone' app or any of
the multitude of control-your-phone-from-your-computer solutions.

  As I use WhatsApp - yes, also on my computer - and have absolutely no
need to *send* SMS messages, I don't need that stuff.