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Have you tried using RCS when you're used to iMessage? It's terrible. Constant failures, weird behavior when changing towers between telcos - not to mention what happens when traveling internationally, where RCS turns on, off, on, off... for a day after arrival.

And of course there's no encryption standard.

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I haven't had those problems with RCS on my Android phone over the last few years of using it.

But yes, the lack of encryption (outside of Google's tacked on version) is a problem.

Google is going outside the standard to prop you up on their phones. Apple can't do that and remain compliant with the standard.

I use it every day and across multiple countries in Asia Pacific with no issues.

Maybe its your phone going overseas and not working correctly.

On what device?

Samsung S22+, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 (aka everywhere but europe).

I buy an Esim for countries I visit, usually before I go. Add it before the flight, sometimes in the country.

List of countries I have worked with: Singapore (Roaming), Indonesia, Malaysia (I may have been roaming in Malaysia) I can't find the esim info, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, India (Maybe i was roaming, can't remember).

Right. As I said in the other thread attached to GP, Google is actually hacking RCS in a non-standard way to make you work. Apple can't do that, and the RCS standard is basically half done, so it absolutely sucks on any devices that have to use the standard rather than Google's implementation.

I assumed you meant google devices. Aka pixel.

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