[bisby]

I prefer Signal, but a lot of my friends are iPhone users and just use iMessage amongst themselves. Android RCS to iMessage is a step up over SMS (RCS doesn't result in super low res videos and pictures).

The thing about social interactions is that you don't always get to dictate "We're using Signal now." And if the other people are using iPhones and aren't going to use Signal, RCS makes sense.

RCS does NOT work properly on custom roms unless you have some google integrity check hacks mixed in, and its a constant cat and mouse of google breaking those hacks... so if your messages are timely, you want SMS, or a google approved android.