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0 pointsgpvos3y ago0 comments

SMS is currenty being undermined by Google's RCS on Android.[0] Some SMSes sent by Google Messages already don't arrive at non-RCS clients. So that also should be forced to open up. In fact, this is a large part of why Signal is dropping SMS support.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services [1] https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/

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rootusrootus3y ago

> Some SMSes sent by Google Messages already don't arrive at non-RCS clients

That's a problem worth solving. Apple Messages falls back from iMessage to SMS transparently; Google RCS should do the same.

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