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For you. I have relatives with iPhones I don't talk to frequently but when we get together and somebody takes a group photo it's annoying. Being able to just text a decent resolution photo without people needing to download an app is a win.
I'll continue to use Signal with friends and family I talk to regularly.
This right here. I have to have my mom send videos of the grandkids to my work iPhone because my personal Android received them heavily pixelated and compressed.
LOL there are hundreds of better solutions for this...
Hundreds?!?! Ok, just name one hundred.
LOL yeah that's how I want to spend my evening...
If Apple implemented the Matrix or Signal protocol it would still work the same way for you, while not forcing other Android users to use on Google or Samsung's proprietary apps, those being the only options for RCS.
Huh? No it wouldn't. If Apple implemented the Signal protocol they would still have to publish an iMessage app to the Play Store for Android users.
Call Google's messaging app proprietary all you want but at least their implementation of RCS is E2E encrypted.
If it used the Signal protocol any app that used that protocol which is open, could interact with it, that is the point. Whereas RCS is a closed protocol, just one that happens to also be interoperable with Google Messages, but not any other third party apps that people might want to make.
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised that on Lemmy people are so against open standards and FOSS apps.
That's not how it works. Other apps (ironically including Google's RCS implementation) use the Signal Protocol. Simply using it doesn't magically make your app interoperable with every other app that uses it. And Apple would be the last company to go out of their way to make it work.
Nobody here is against open standards or FOSS apps. I am actually lucky/privileged enough to be able to write open source code for a living.
You seem to not understand the reality of the situation and that use case other than yours exist.
Google RCS messages already use the Signal protocol...
As does WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook and Instagram.
That's not how it works.