Pay special attention to the Universal Profile. That’s the core spec everyone agreed on a few years ago, the one used for basic texting.
You know what isn’t in there? Encryption. Google will need to either disable encryption in chats with Apple users, or Apple users won’t be able to join encrypted groups.
Is this better than using SMS? Obviously yes. Is this going to fix the iMessage problem? Only if you don’t care about privacy.
I personally don’t ever chat via SMS or RCS so I don’t really care either way, but unless Google opens up and documents its encryption, the user experience will still degrade when talking to iOS people.
Pay special attention to the Universal Profile. That’s the core spec everyone agreed on a few years ago, the one used for basic texting.
You know what isn’t in there? Encryption. Google will need to either disable encryption in chats with Apple users, or Apple users won’t be able to join encrypted groups.
Is this better than using SMS? Obviously yes. Is this going to fix the iMessage problem? Only if you don’t care about privacy.
I personally don’t ever chat via SMS or RCS so I don’t really care either way, but unless Google opens up and documents its encryption, the user experience will still degrade when talking to iOS people.
Google uses the Signal protocol for encryption and they do intend to allow for interoperability:
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/19/google-messages-mls-encrypted/
This is not something Google was ever against doing
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