RCS is federated in a way (between service providers, you can’t easily self-host this stuff). The unencrypted protocol is also open.
In practice, nobody but spammers cares about RCS. Google wrapped the whole thing into a “you won’t get shamed by iOS users anymore if Apple would just pick this up” envelope to gain support, but I don’t think that many Android users are using SMS/RCS for their messaging anyway.
Google’s RCS has 800M active users and it’s projected to hit 1B by the end of the year matching iMessage’s usage. Whether people actually know that it’s RCS or not, it’s been a pretty successful service for Google so far.
RCS is federated in a way (between service providers, you can’t easily self-host this stuff). The unencrypted protocol is also open.
In practice, nobody but spammers cares about RCS. Google wrapped the whole thing into a “you won’t get shamed by iOS users anymore if Apple would just pick this up” envelope to gain support, but I don’t think that many Android users are using SMS/RCS for their messaging anyway.
Google’s RCS has 800M active users and it’s projected to hit 1B by the end of the year matching iMessage’s usage. Whether people actually know that it’s RCS or not, it’s been a pretty successful service for Google so far.
I use RCS with all of my Android user friends. It’s always been turned on by default for us.
Not sure what you mean not many Android users are using it?
Meanwhile, Google Voice doesn’t even have it enabled!