CAcreeks wrote:
wklee wrote:
fotografffic wrote:
Can someone please help me decipher this article ?
I've been using Google Messenger for some time. The other day it presented me with the choice to switch it to Chat. I didn't.
Then I read this: "SMS is a basic tech that’s really best avoided—and unfortunately RCS hasn’t fixed one of its most critical issues."
So I shouldn't be using Google Messenger with or without the chat feature? Use WhatsApp instead (article warns about Facebook)? or something called Signal?
Thank you.
On my Android phone I have Google Messages not Chat and I have heard the same warning. Which is that RCS is not yet ready. Chat is disabled in Messages on my phone. I use the phone for SMS.
I was confused by your first post - there is no such thing as Google Messenger. Your second post is correct. It is Google Messages, a simple SMS based app. Blue quote rectangle with 2.7 white lines. Aside from lack of end-to-end encryption, SMS is slow (especially for photos), unreliable, multi-user hostile, and seldom available over WiFi.
I'm not planning to install Google Chat until somebody I know demands to use it. Possibly it will be like Google+, which never took off. I liked Hangouts because it had an interface inside Gmail, but Google abandoned it, the fockers.
A manager forced me to install WhatsApp for a conference, but I deleted it as soon as I could. Seems like a duplication of every other messaging app.
My family uses Signal. It seems good so far. Like WhatsApp it is end-to-end encrypted, but not owned by Facebook.
I'm not the OP. I wonder if there's confusion between Facebook Messenger and Google Messages, or some other "Messenger" App?
RCS in Messages has arrived, or is coming to more countries.
https://9to5google.com/2020/08/24/google-messages-rcs-countries/
I am seeing Google Jibe on my Android phone.
https://jibe.google.com/
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