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Comment by _-david-_ | Hacker News Reader

So communication with Android can be better without relying on some third party app.

Having participated in multiple group chats with a mix of iOS and Android users, the only time this becomes an issue is when some idiot tries to send everyone a large video file. Personally, I want that behavior punished, not enabled.

Yeah, those absolute morons, who want to send files over the internet. What a bunch of complete idiots.

Happily for me, MMS efficiently destroys the dreams of the kind of people who send long animated GIFs to group chats.

mattnewton liked “Having participated in multiple group chats with a mix of iOS and Android users, the only time this becomes an issue is when some idiot tries to send everyone a large video file…”

Imho if RCS ever takes over SMS it will eventually get to a point where it’s equally obsolete. RCS requires carriers to support the standard and manufacturers to build features upon it that its not guaranteed will work as expected on all the devices. As much as i hate private companies having monopolies over online communication on entire countries, at least their services are reliable, accessible from basically every device and constantly improving.

I personally prefer 3rd party apps -- ideally those which feature end-to-end encryption -- to SMS/RCS/iMessage.

I mean iMessage is end-to-end encrypted so conflating it with SMS and RCS is kind of BS in the context of your encryption comment.

Disliking the client apps themselves is of course perfectly reasonable, as some of them are annoying and/or have weird UI that seems to optimise for things other than "I'm talking to another person, not looking to use whatever your pet UI feature is"

Then next day news will say Apple is trying to kill 3rd party chat app by fencing it with Google using RCS.

Spammer’s life will be easier for bombing everybody, don’t see any other real benefits.

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