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Will RCS (Rich Communication Service) ever succeed?

Stefan Wuthrich on November 17, 2019

I am contracted by a Swiss Company, as Chief Product Office, which doe Software for SMS and related services for the Telecommunication Industry. F...
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Rohan Mishra

As it stands, I don’t see RCS ever becoming a thing. It will quietly augment SMS when both users have it enabled and most people will still send SMS. SMS is largely used for notifications from services (usage alert, verification codes, ads, bank alerts, etc) outside of NA. There isn’t any killer feature to have people convert over. It still uses data unlike SMS, isn’t encrypted, lacks features of telegram, whatsapp and others.

Ntm, Google RCS requires you to use the google Messages app and it isn’t available at all on iOS.

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Stefan Wuthrich

Obviously I agree with you in all points :-)