I am amused that this is not a staff-recommended comment. The parent post rightfully questions the qualifications of the writer, but everything they wrote in response is true, valid and deserves to be addressed.

RCS uses internet transit with SMS (cell tower control channel signalling) as a fallback. Vastly larger character limits eliminate out of order delivery and larger binary attachments. Not being tied to a hardware ID means I can receive messages on any client device and have a standard set of options for sending and…

In the late 90s, when Apple was struggling, it was a flag-bearer for open standards. You may not have known that. You may be a younger person or unaware of the technology landscape of that time.

I block SMS messages at the carrier level, so I have no real dog in this fight, but there’s functionally zero difference between sending an iMessage and using email, save that the identifier on the other side is an Apple ID rather than an email address. She has green text bubbles. Heaven forbid! Could she not use any…

I’ve been ranting about over-reliance on Steam since it was forced onto my PC with the Half-Life 2 installation. PC Gaming has never needed a monoculture, but it has one now in the form of being the only legal point of sale for vast numbers of products. As a gamer unwilling to use Steam or game on a console platform,…

Android Open Source Project devices do exist and are viable, but I don’t think anyone can claim that AOSP is anything other than Google’s baby, even if it’s something that Google gives away for free. I’m not sure if that violates the premise of the article. Without the Play Services Framework, it’s probably relatively…

SMS is a thing that needs to die. It’s tied to a handset or phone number. There’s no standard way of using or directing it to some other device. It has a crap character limit, regularly delivers messages out of order or not at all, barely supports binary attachments, can be difficult or impossible to search depending…