Google has been fighting the good battle for quite some time now, improving the RCS experience on Google Messages by adding features that bring it more up to par with its biggest messaging app competitor in the U.S. — iMessage. It also added end-to-end encryption to protect the privacy of its users' … [Read more...] about Google Messages End-to-End Encryption in testing phase for Group Chats
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Google Messages prepping direct replies, more emoji reactions, transcribing voice memos
Since the "Buy your mom an iPhone" comment that Apple CEO, Tim Cook, made in response to a reporter's question about Apple adopting RCS and the fact that video quality gets significantly degraded when a message goes through SMS, many have been quick to write Google Messages off and consider this a … [Read more...] about Google Messages prepping direct replies, more emoji reactions, transcribing voice memos
Google pauses business messaging in India to address RCS spam
For the past few months, users in India who use RCS (Rich Communication Services) have encountered a barrage of ads coming in through the Google Messages app. The issue was getting so out of hand that users reported getting several ads a day that were predatory in nature, looking to get users to … [Read more...] about Google pauses business messaging in India to address RCS spam
