Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.hispagatos.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Powell Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:05:50 +0200 Organization: Hispagatos.org Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:05:50 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: matrix.hispagatos.org; logging-data="75815"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@hispagatos.org" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.372 (x86; Portable ISpell) Bytes: 3394 Lines: 45 On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:41:07 -0700, Alan wrote: >>>>>> Nobody on Android has to log into a server to use their mms sms app. >>>>>> If your Android phone requires it, then you're doing something wrong. >>>>>> >>>>>> What Android phone are you using which requires a login account? >>>>> >>>>> The credentials to use sms/mms are stored in the SIM ... >>>> >>>> But that works independent of any Internet login password server >>>> accounts. >>> >>> What is an "internet login password server account"? >>> >>>> >>>> Nobody on Android has to connect to the Internet with a login & password >>>> account just to use the default messaging that comes with every Android. >>>> >>>> Not sure about MLS or RCS though, as that's not the default, is it? >>> >>> If you want to receive messages, you must identify yourself and >>> authenticate that you are the authorized recipient of those messages. >> >> Your knowledge level is so lacking that it's hard to respond nicely. >> >> If I have to explain to you what the Internet is, then you have no business >> making your outrageous claims that Android can't do text messaging without >> having to enter a login and password into an Internet server account. > > I never said it was a "internet server account". > >> >> Android has been doing text messaging without the Internet for a long time. > > And that text messaging requires a form of logging in that's just so > transparent to you, you don't notice it. > > The SIM card logs you in to your cellular provider. > > Do you know what "SIM" means: > > "Subscriber Identity Module". I was aware you have no idea what the Internet is and therefore you don't have any clue that Android text messaging has worked fine and still works fine without entering a login & password into an account on a server on it.