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by cheschire 1399 days ago
This conversation is a frequent annoyance for me. I’m tired of asking folks if they have Apple or Signal available just to send a photo. MMS is unreliable and opaque to most folks it seems since pictures never seem to get through if they’re on android.
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Melatonic 1399 days ago
Same is true for android to android - it does a much higher quality non MMS. Unfortunately neither Google nor Apple will open up their damn protocol to the other.
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Stevvo 1399 days ago
https://www.android.com/get-the-message/

This page, from Google, makes it quite clear their protocol is an open standard, and Apple are the only closed one.

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Melatonic 1399 days ago
There are no android clients that can do it besides google messages. Google also has their own version of RCS that only works messages to messages. Carriers also have a version of RCS but its not quite the same.

Apple could and should totally adopt the carrier version of RCS though. And it would be great if Google would let apps like Textra in too

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