My Thoughts On RCS Communication

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Personally, I use three messaging apps to talk to various people in my life: Google’s Messages app to talk with my family who all use SMS; WhatsApp to talk with my wife and industry colleagues; and Facebook Messenger to group chat with my friends. I don’t like using so many messaging apps, so I was excited to hear about the Rich Communications Services (RCS) **bleep** that made the rounds last week. If I could get my wife moved over to Google’s Messages app with RCS, I could spend most of my time chatting in Google’s preferred messaging app. Not that I have anything against WhatsApp, but I was simply eager to jump onboard with the new messaging standard that promises to make a more seamless experience across all Android phones. But after using RCS for a week or so (and moving my wife off WhatsApp for this experiment), I’m not so convinced jumping the WhatsApp ship was the right idea.