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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Maybe Google can work with Google on implementing a user-level API for Android so manufacturers don't have a monopoly on RCS apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This. They haven't opened up the RCS stuff till now on Android to other apps.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They won't. It's part of their "slowly-closed-source-all-of-Android" plan. The old messaging app used to be part of AOSP and you could read the source, how delightful that was.

Would be a good time for a contender to start the third OS. In a few years, more of the population would have interest enough that it might actually get traction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They have abandoned the app and multitudes of others in favour to their closed source apps. Multiple Open Source apps exists to fill the gaps though.

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