Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones
After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages...
The end is coming. Soon you will need Google messages or Apple imessages. You will use proprietary messaging applications and like it
We need more competition not less
Weirdly enough, messages seem to be the only thing I see the general public being ok with diversifying.
Everyone I know uses different messaging apps, I have active conversations in signal, telegram, Whatsapp, messages(SMS), messages(RCS), discord, and matrix.
sms is essentialy just a confirmation code delivery protocol tho? (like i have around 100 "chats" with just confirmation codes in them and ZERO conversations...) and i don't see anyone using rcs mostly because of EXTREMELY poor reputation of sms messaging...
sure would be nice if I could use my Google Voice number on it
Or at least feature parity in the separate app
They can keep both those shitty apps. I'll be sticking with Textra.
Couldn't give one solitary fuck about RCS.
if RCS got open sourced it would be nice. might be misremembering but I think apple is working on that?
either way, it would be a nice upgrade from SMS, and unlike apps like signal, everyone would already have it
