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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)

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Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users::The push to bring iMessage to Android users today adds a new contender. A startup called Beeper, which had been working on a multi-platform messaging

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RCS is too liitle, too late. It sucks. People have issues with it today... It's less reliable than SMS, and it's E2EE is problematic.

Fortunately much of the world has moved away from SMS already, so those folks aren't coming back. I try real hard to get people away from it.

[–] mike805@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@BearOfaTime I have RCS and use it. It works fine. I have not noticed significant reliability problems, using Google's servers. If there are problems it's likely the carrier's garbage implementation.

There is no standard here in the USA except SMS.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It works fine, for you. When it works is irrelevant. When it doesn't is what matters.

Go to reddit look for RCS problem posts. It's terrible.