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https://www.blog.google/products/rcs/upgrading-messaging-android-us-rcs/
Chat features are already available for some of you in Messages, and today we’re starting to broadly roll them out in the U.S. If you already have Messages, you’ll also be prompted to enable chat features in the coming weeks. If you don’t have Messages, you can download it on the Play Store. We expect this service to be broadly available in the U.S. by the end of year.
All I can say is its about damn time. I had high hopes for RCS years ago until carriers started to create their own propitiatory messaging standards that were janky at best. This is a huge win for Google and Android and will likely bring over a lot of iPhone users who can't let go of iMessage because of its features.
Chat features are already available for some of you in Messages, and today we’re starting to broadly roll them out in the U.S. If you already have Messages, you’ll also be prompted to enable chat features in the coming weeks. If you don’t have Messages, you can download it on the Play Store. We expect this service to be broadly available in the U.S. by the end of year.
All I can say is its about damn time. I had high hopes for RCS years ago until carriers started to create their own propitiatory messaging standards that were janky at best. This is a huge win for Google and Android and will likely bring over a lot of iPhone users who can't let go of iMessage because of its features.