Are there any (preferably FOSS) RCS/SMS/MMS apps as an alternative to Google Messages? I can’t convince anyone to switch to signal and would like to at least use an app that I trust. Eventually I’ll be moving to a privacy-respecting mobile OS so I’ll need an SMS app to run without Google Play Services, but I don’t want to totally miss out on RCS. Are there any alternatives? Is this even possible?
Bruh really? People were making it sound like iOS not having RCS support was entirely on Apple not wanting to adopt an open “better SMS” standard. (To be fair, they probably wouldn’t adopt it even if it was open either)
Not sure if this is better or worse lol. But if this is the case I don’t get the appeal of RCS at all.
It is an Apple problem.
Don’t confuse a client API with a cross platform protocol. They are different beasts and Apple refuses to send or receive RCS messages. That’s different than a client trying to send or receive an RCS message.
Apple is vetted as an authorized entity whereas a random client is not.