Google’s RCS Nightmare—Why You Need A New App

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The irony has continued for Google, with the news that Samsung is ditching RCS for millions of its Galaxy users still using Samsung Messages and recommending they switch to Google Messages.

Rather like a slow motion train crash, while Apple’s long-awaited adoption of RCS was quickly celebrated by Google, no sooner had it launched than it was being criticized for its awkward security vulnerability—despite iMessage constantly lauding its end-to-end encryption, those green bubbles continue to do without.

As Android Police explained in the fall, “Samsung switched to Google Messages in favor of its messaging app with the Galaxy S21 series in Europe back in 2021.