Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 7 days agoGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down17
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Messages will help you shame your friends into finally turning on RCS (APK teardown)www.androidauthority.comBlaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square34linkfedilink
minus-squarePxtl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-27 days agoI turned it off when it failed to failover to sms when there was no data connection. Are both me and the recipient online? Send RCS. Are either of us not connected? Send sms. How is that so hard? Otherwise RCS is just “worse SMS for people with intermittent data connectivity”.
minus-squareunknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·6 days agoBecause SMS costs money everywhere else and the world is not the US.
minus-squareRussAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoThat would be a reason for the feature not being available. The feature is there, it just apparently doesn’t always work reliably.
I turned it off when it failed to failover to sms when there was no data connection.
Are both me and the recipient online? Send RCS. Are either of us not connected? Send sms. How is that so hard?
Otherwise RCS is just “worse SMS for people with intermittent data connectivity”.
Because SMS costs money everywhere else and the world is not the US.
That would be a reason for the feature not being available.
The feature is there, it just apparently doesn’t always work reliably.