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RCS still sucks. It's a marginal improvement over MMS, and not more.
Basically all the stuff people actually care about are proprietary Google features because they had to use proprietary extensions and send everything through their own servers to make it work.
It's really not different than iMessage. It's no more open to any other messaging app or any other OS than iMessage is, and it isn't really capable of being so unless the standard improves.
This is just… super wrong. RCS is more open than iMessage by virtue of being supported on two different platforms from different vendors. Doesn’t really mean it is fully open, it’s not, but 2 is more than 1.
Most of the stuff people think are RCS aren't though. They're proprietary extensions to RCS that only work on Google's text message apps, transmitted through Google's servers, with RCS junk as fallback for other services.
It's not actually meaningfully different than Apple doing iMessage with fallback to RCS now.
Intercommunication is still going to be bad because the standard that carriers support isn't where all the features are.
Can I do the fireworks effect or the heart baloon in RCS?