TL;DR
- Users who have rooted their phone, have their bootloader unlocked or are using some custom ROMs report that their RCS messages are not being sent, even though RCS shows them as connected.
- The Google Messages app does not show any error messages when blocking RCS messages of these users and does not send the messages out as SMS or MMS either.
- Google famously campaigned for Apple to include RCS messaging in iMessage but is now blocking it for certain Android users.
Good thing nobody uses sms to chat here where I live…
The bad thing is that Whatsapp is the alternative.
The thing is, RCS isn’t SMS. That’s kind of the point. RCS is a replacement for SMS. The two protocols just happen to be available in the same Messages app. It’s like sticking WhatsApp inside Messages, except it’s a different protocol.
Oh I get it, but well, my point still stands, nobody here uses the stock messaging app, which can send SMS.
Which is partly good, as iMessage is not predominant here either.
Same here… whatsapp became so widespread, that even governmental agencies and private businesses use it for official communication.
That is what blew my mind indeed, and as someone who hates constantly dialing companies and such for minor crap, I kinda am glad they went this way lol.