Following the news that “Beeper becomes first RCS chat app for iPhones, introducing support for Google Messages with RCS” what are your thoughts on the app and on the RCS forced by Google? Is it worth a try? Or should I stick to Matrix and Signal?

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  • jlow (he/him)
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    110 months ago

    it’s so weird then to make the app closed source. I would guess that a lot of potential users would care about this and are unhappy with that …

    • PupBiru
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      110 months ago

      i think it makes sense… that’s the pattern with a lot of FOSS but for-profit: make the hard (but generic) functionality FOSS and then make your “skin” that ties it all together, thing that makes it pretty, the differentiator closed and sell that