I wish you didn't drop SMS support. SMS is a last resort solution when nothing else works. Now with this Google Messages integration I'm entirely stuck and can't send/receive SMS when my data connection is not working. Deal-breaker for me.
I'm not sure how many people care about RCS support but none of my friends use SMS for anything else than auth tokens and communication when the data is not working.
And then there are the big privacy concerns that this introduces: what's the point of having everything e2e-ish on Beeper but then decide to hand over all our data to Google? Snooping on all the 2FA messages enables them to know exactly when and what service I connect to and there is nothing I can do about it.
I disabled this integration and reverted to the native Android Messaging app.
💬 Out of Labs and ready to roll: Google Messages + RCS support is here.
I wish you didn't drop SMS support. SMS is a last resort solution when nothing else works. Now with this Google Messages integration I'm entirely stuck and can't send/receive SMS when my data connection is not working. Deal-breaker for me.
I'm not sure how many people care about RCS support but none of my friends use SMS for anything else than auth tokens and communication when the data is not working.
And then there are the big privacy concerns that this introduces: what's the point of having everything e2e-ish on Beeper but then decide to hand over all our data to Google? Snooping on all the 2FA messages enables them to know exactly when and what service I connect to and there is nothing I can do about it.
I disabled this integration and reverted to the native Android Messaging app.