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akerstentoday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

Perfect I can't wait for the deluge of spam texts with real clickable buttons to trick me instead of just a 320x320 picture of one.

Let's see, RCS:

* needlessly complicated protocol, such that only a behemoth such as Google could administrate it

* Intensely leans on device attestation to even let you on to the network

* Tenfold the multimedia touchpoints as MMS, correspondingly it will have 10x the zero days

* Certainly wiretapped at law enforcement's whim

* Took 15 years to roll out

* And you still get green bubbles on iPhone

I wish we'd all switch to signal and the telcos would get back to being dumb pipes. But no, we need to support Read indicators and ad carousels in our baseband


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the_aruntoday at 4:28 AM

What is the difference between RCS & Whatsapp messages? Aren't they similar?