It's not a brand new app, it's an RCS-enabled SMS platform. RCS is ostensibly going to be the replacement for SMS. This isn't exactly groundbreaking or revolutionary that Google is now implementing it into their default Messages app.
as the end user, I barely have to deal with it
I just want to send text to people, that includes URLs
Anything else I would use a proper messaging service, instead of one baked into the same application for SMS
And you can do that with RCS just fine. If all you're doing is sending text, the data used for it would be negligible anyway.
What do you use now?
How is that a good thing?
I use Signal because they actually take privacy seriously (though it only really benefits you if the other user has Signal) and it works great (plus I receive messages even without any money in my account). If I have to have mobile data to receive texts that kind of defeats the main purpose of having the damn phone and I might as well just get a tablet with mobile data. It's not like I use SMS to send pictures and shit anyway (and even if I do it's more than fast enough), so being able to send more data than simple text messages is pretty much useless, especially considering I have unlimited text and get service in more places than I get 4g/3g internet.
That's still alive? Thought it died years ago.
Facebook have owned Whatsapp for years my man, not sure how you missed that one.
Whatsapp itself still seems fairly unscathed by their shit though, communication is still end-to-end encrypted, so they can't snoop on your actual messages. They probably grab metadata like time sent, etc. though.
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