I asked Signal motivations for SMS removal
Here is their answer: Hi, Thank you for your thoughts on the announced SMS removal. The blog post describes all of the biggest factors in making this decision, but I know this is a change that is difficult to adjust to, so I wanted to chime in with some additional info that might give some more context. 1. RCS (Rich Communications Services) is coming, and it doesn’t play well with Signal. I once had a situation when I was sending SMS to one of my friends via Signal, but I wasn’t seeing any of their responses – this was because their app was automatically responding via RCS, which wasn’t delivered to Signal. This is going to continue to get worse, and Signal cannot add RCS support because there’s no RCS API on Android. Honestly, the days of any third-party SMS app are numbered. 2. Proper SMS/MMS support is hard. Signal has to support thousands of devices running dozens of versions of
Why it failed
Here is their answer: Hi, Thank you for your thoughts on the announced SMS removal. The blog post describes all of the biggest factors in making this decision, but I know this is a change that is difficult to adjust to, so I wanted to chime in with some additional info that might
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- quentinus95
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews