Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices
www.theverge.com
Google says it’s taking measures to prevent spam and abuse.

Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it’s broken for me also.

      • koper@feddit.nlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        RCS is walled off by design, so that users are dependent on Google and their phone carrier. If they wanted an open standard they would have adopted something like XMPP.

        • verysoft@kbin.social
          1·
          9 months ago

          No… RCS is a protocol (from GSMA) anyone can implement, Google just spearheaded it and developed Jibe to make it easy for operators to implement, but by doing this it means Google gained a lot of control of it and added their own features to such as end-to-end encryption.