It took what feels like an eternity for RCS to gain any traction. Let's have a quick 15th birthday party and look into the future.
  • xia@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    203·
    10 months ago

    True, but… at least for me… it’s probably because i disabled it the instant i started getting “enhanced” salesy texts from corporations.

    • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
      131·
      10 months ago

      What do you not like about it? It seems like a huge improvement over SMS/MMS to me.

      • Coriza@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        10 months ago

        Probably because it is worst than any dedicated IM service like whatsapp, telegram, etc

        • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I guess it depends on how you define “worse”. With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There’s a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can’t agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.

          It’s great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I’d someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

          The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can’t figure it out.

          • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            SMS “failover”, just two comments above. https://lemmy.world/comment/6102361

            I see this failover failure every single day when people talk about RCS.

            This is unacceptable.

            Also, since when do you have to “check” a messenger? That’s what notifications are for.

      • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
        62·
        10 months ago

        Google messages (the only real implementation) still sucks at automatic failover when a data connection is unavailable.

        Google Messages RCS is basically flip a coin on delivery if you don’t have consistent data for your phone.

      • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        It will randomly fail for a day or two at a time, where all my messages will silently fail to send, without any notification that they failed, and then I check the app hours later and see they need to be resent as SMS.

        This isn’t really the fault of the protocol itself, but it’s infuriating and stops me from recommending it.

      • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Can add too, until it can send in almost any wireless situation like SMS can, it isn’t worth bothering with. SMS can send on LTE even when a phone doesn’t have a data connection available to the userspace. (Bars but no G icon.) It can send on 2G or above practically instantly. (Although once T-Mobile turns off 2G next year, less of a concern in the US.) SMS is just a raw simple control channel message. RCS is, as others mentioned, just another over-the-top messenger with all the network stack overhead, and a buggy one.

        One can fire off an emergency SMS on the side of a mountain with barely usable signal that won’t even work for a voice call. RCS would fail in such an environment.

        MMS, of course, requires a carrier APN data connection to work, and is a bit slower and more finicky. RCS would definitely be an improvement there.