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Can I make this work with my Google Voice number?

Same question. No RCS, no iMessage... Us few Google Voice users have been forgotten by Google. I live in constant fear that the service will be "spring cleaned".

Yeah I'm too far commmitted. I hope they'll let us buy the number off them

But my theory is that too many google execs use it so it'll hurt them too if it gets canned. They did update the app semi recently

My main glimmer of hope is that Google has started selling Voice as a hosted VoIP enterprise solution[1] recently, showing that they are doing _something_ with the technology... even if the consumer offering is languishing.

1. https://workspace.google.com/products/voice/

You know, if Apple wanted to be really snarky, they could run some of those "Make Apple support RCS" ads, except with Google Voice.

They started working on a bridge. I have endlessly begged them to make one.

https://github.com/beeper/googlevoice

If I knew Go I would roll up my shelves and work on this myself.

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