Who do you really want to blame for this, Cellular Carriers. Most people now have unlimited talk and text in their plans, by off loading texting to Google Messages that go through Googles servers, the telecom companies don't have to maintain huge servers anymore. Apple and Google messages are stand alone. There will always be a SMS/MMS fallback system for those that have flip phones, Those people are becoming less and less every year.
BTW, by the mere fact that you own an Android phone, you are stuck with Google, they do own the platform of the phone you are using. If you hate Google so much, might I suggest you get an iPhone and don't put any Google apps on it.
While I agree that the carriers should shoulder the majority of blame for the current RCS situation, I don't think you have a good understanding of how SMS/MMS messaging works, and that there are fewer servers in the world. If anything, there are more than there have ever been due to the rise in the number of text messages being sent around the world each day. Text messages are only stored on servers for thirty days, backed up, then removed to make room for more messages.
@Dan2023 It's pretty disrespectful that you would state, I don't you have a good uderstanding of how "SMS/MMS MESSAGING WORKS " This is 2025 not 2019 since the introduction of Google Messages with RCS capabilities. I have a pretty good grasp of how things work. A person opens their Samsung Message app, types a message, and sends it to a recipient. Does it go straight to the recipient? No, they go to SMSC and MMSC ( Short Message Service Center and Multimedia Message Service Center) first, then to the recipient. Who do you think maintain and operate these servers? CELLULAR CARRIERS. Google message that are RCS do not run through or get stored on carrier servers, only the ones that get set using SMS/MMS. Samsung Messages run through carriers, Samsung Messages with RCS is reliant on carrier support that run through carrier servers. Eventually, no carrier will support it. They would like anyone with a smartphone to use Google Messages, especially now that Apple supports RCS. This would save them millions.
Interesting. I don't know what you mean by offloading. Offloading what, please?
You pay your carriers for texting, RCS, MMS, and SMS. It's part of your data plan. They could get rid of the servers, but then they couldn't charge you for the service. They would lose money. Why do you think that they and Apple have been reluctant to adopt RCS?
As to Apple not wanting to adopt RCS, think about that one for a moment. The main thing in this country, and only this country that ket people using Iphones, IMessage. Apple since adopting RCS has lost 6% of their market share, that 6% were Android users who reluctantly moved to Iphones because of IMessage and have moved back to Android. Pixel was the biggest beneficiary of Apples loss. Android users no longer break group chats, Android users no longer get compressed photos and videos from Iphones. While our generation don't live to text, millennial and Gen z do. Their whole lives are texting and no talking. They don't even use voicemail or answer their phones. It's all text.
