cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17792695
After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages…
So that’s it ? RCS will only be available through Apple’s iMessage and Google’s Messages. What a shame
Google’s dream of hijacking an open standard (on Android at least) is achieved :/
They had a messages app?
Samsung has their own dedicated redundant app for everything that comes pre-installed and is unremovable.
It’s why I haven’t even looked at a Samsung since the S6.
Drives me nuts when I type a apps name and Samsungs knockoff version shows up. The Samsung wallet… Jeez
Disable or uninstall the ones you don’t want to use. Most of them can be. (Still a hassle though.)
I do agree with the non-unique naming complaint though. Do I want to use Messages or Messages?
Yeah, it’s not as noisy and messy as Google’s, it let’s you folder messages by category and has a nice clean quiet interface designed for large displays. Google’s tries to push and sell you on features every time you use it.
A pity the good one is going away.
For SMS / texting
And it won’t give you a vibrate on pick up or push notifications to attached devices like your car… Very cool :/
I do not know both of these. Amazing.
Funny. I just uninstalled Google Messages a few days ago in favor of QUIK SMS. I miss nothing.
I use Mezo SMS, comes with a wildcard blocklist for both numbers and content.
And to be honest, I use it exclusively to block shit. Haven’t actually sent a text message in way over a decade. If it wasn’t for two websites I have to use sending me one time passwords, I’d have uninstalled the SMS app altogether.
Sadly, its all I have for communicating with iPhone users. A few people in my family have installed Signal, and that’s great, but my friends refuse to do so, and I don’t blame them.
Oh right, I heard that especially in the US, iPhone users refuse to do anything but. I’m stuck with whatsapp since that’s what almost everybody in Europe is using. Not much better considering it’s a Meta company, but at least they have to adhere to our data privacy laws.
I did the same weeks ago and I miss lots.
Really? Like what? I’m not a heavy SMS user.
I really miss support for iMessage style reactions. Now I just get messages like “Emphasized an image” or “Liked an image” with no idea which image was being reacted to half the time, like in a big group chat with 10 people.
QUIK very often says “Sending…” on a picture message forever (literally), even when it’s already been received and responded to. And often fails to send messages altogether when my signal is weak, and apparently doesn’t retry in the background. It forces you to try to resend it and then it’ll say “sending” forever half the time. I routinely have to ask my friends if they received messages if they don’t reply right away. So the core functionality of sending messages and ensuring they’re sent is broken.
Picture messages are limited in size to some number you have to choose in settings. If you get it wrong the messages are guaranteed to fail. A number like 600k or 800k, up to 2000k After experimenting, 800 often fails for me, and 600 seems to work all the time, but the pictures look like crap. They get shrunk a ton. Google’s Messages app must negotiate a size with your carrier because it never makes you choose what size to use and pictures look better, too.p
No RCS. iOS will have RCS built into iMessage and I think it’ll be on by default. You’ll finally get message confirmations and encryption, and typing indicators if you like that sort of thing. I’ve tested it with my friend who already has 18 because he works for Apple and it works great.
I’m about ready to give up and just go back to Messages. I dont like that they track who you text and even send themselves hashes of your messages, but my own personal boycott of the app isn’t going to help anyone who actually needs the privacy.
