RCS the oficial standard is open yes. But Goggle’s implementation has added proprietary bits and changes that aren’t in the spec. Even if they opened their servers nobody could use them anyway.
But Goggle’s implementation has added proprietary bits and changes that aren’t in the spec.
They added encryption based on Signal, so hardly proprietary. Encryption apparently is being incorporated into an upcoming revision of the RCS spec, no word on the algorithm to be used, though.
That is correct. However, Google does control Android and has not added the ability for other applications to interact with RCS, other than Google Messages and the Samsung messenger.
Google does control Android and has not added the ability for other applications to interact with Google’s RCS instanceRCS, other than Google Messages and the Samsung messenger, whereas all those joyn branded messengers that exist since a decade need to access their own servers.
Ah, okay then. As long as anybody can set up an RCS instance, then and communicate with the people on the Google servers, then that’s fine. But if for example, fossify cant setup an RCS instance there would be no need for fossify sms messenger to exist.
From what I understand RCS isn’t controlled by Google, Google merely operates a RCS instance in a federated ecosystem.
RCS the oficial standard is open yes. But Goggle’s implementation has added proprietary bits and changes that aren’t in the spec. Even if they opened their servers nobody could use them anyway.
They added encryption based on Signal, so hardly proprietary. Encryption apparently is being incorporated into an upcoming revision of the RCS spec, no word on the algorithm to be used, though.
That is correct. However, Google does control Android and has not added the ability for other applications to interact with RCS, other than Google Messages and the Samsung messenger.
FIFY according to the best of my knowledge.
Ah, okay then. As long as anybody can set up an RCS instance, then and communicate with the people on the Google servers, then that’s fine. But if for example, fossify cant setup an RCS instance there would be no need for fossify sms messenger to exist.