> Couldn't disagree more. Having a singular app handle all messaging was brilliant and a key feature to bring people over.

> Apple disallowing competition isn't a good reason to remove something useful for Android users.

Nice in theory, but RCS breaks everything here.

You send someone at SMS in Signal, they reply but their client "upgrades" it to RCS. Signal never receives the reply (because the RCS android API is private), and now everyone blames Signal for "dropping messages".