Blue Shirt Guy
Regular Member
We might be talking cross purposes. My only real point here is that if a network has no RCS support, then an Android device using Google's Jibe servers does not change that for any other phones.I am also talking about the iPhone too, but just the end of it that i see. And also that Google Jibe RCS is not the walled garden you portray it to be. And also that there is ineroperabillity between EE/Samsung/Google etc. More to come of course, but more to show that it can and is being done.
The waters are muddied by the fact that Jibe can mean two things, the not-quite-RCS (but arguably better) proprietary Google protocol used only by their client, or the standards based Jibe service sold to network operators. Once a message is inside either of these it can get to any RCS device. The issue is getting the message into the RCS network in the first place.
So RCS is not a walled garden, but if there is no RCS on your network and you're not using the Google Messaging client (or Samsung), then you can see the garden but can't quite reach it.























