Because no person in my life uses it I made the generalization that it isn’t used much, leading to my top comment.
The point is to take the base communication technology (texting) and bring it to the 21st century without being beholden to some American company.
Is this satirical? RCS is beholden to some American company as far as I can tell.
Yeah you need a TrickyStore and a valid key, though my point is that they can pick and choose who can be an RCS client.
SMS can literally be read by anyone spinning up a fake mobile tower, there is no e2e encryption and probably a few other security concerns I don’t even know, I’ll use WhatsApp before I use SMS as secure communication.
Edit: RCS fixes (some of?) this but at this point why not use something even better?
They don’t need 5 programs, there are lots of messaging services that work across the major platforms that people use, I don’t understand why we would want a new , “official” client made by google which locks out anyone they don’t like (rooted devices, third parties) which doesn’t even have the advantages of already existing options in terms of privacy, usability, and security.
Also they’d need 6 programs, the 5 they had before and now RCS.
Small correction: Using Networkmanager in KDE/Linux you can select the frequency (and even individual APs) in the GUI.