Native Messenger 1MB text limitations

hartbjh@gmail.com wrote:
This, for the most part, has nothing to do with T Mobile. 
First, you came from an Iphone, Iphone has imessage. A very good and complete messenger service that we do not have on android, once you realize that you either need to move back to apple or get over it and find a better way, like the rest of us. 
As to why. The built in app we use for text messaging is a basic sms app. Go back fifteen years to a flip phone and it is the same basic method of sending messages. Imessage on the other hand works like whatsapp or allo (data) but uses sms as a backup. that is why it is so complete. Android has nothing like this, for the most part. If you use imessage and see a green bubble you know they are either not using imessage or have no data. So when you try to send a picture it has to compress the pic to be able to send it. 
Googles messaging is a giant cluster frak. They have google messages, basic SMS, google allo/duo, which are messengers with video phone calling like whatsapp, only better. Even though everyone is screaming for google to merge the two to create basically imessages for android they have not, and might not. 
Google came out with RMS, rich message service, that works nearly identical to imessage. The issue is the carriers. The program is totally open source (or whatever the correct terminology is) Only sprint in the US and a couple of canadian carriers use the actual google system. Verizon will not use it because they have verizon messages, a good but only if you have verizon app. Don't know what ATT does with it. T-Mobile uses it but they use their own variation so it only works tmobile to tmobile, if you have the correct phone, and not if you bought a non tmobile phone.
Basically, carriers are trying to do their own thing, google is drunk, and we have a choice of a lot of good message services that no one can agree on, whatsapp is the most popular, or seems to be. The carriers in the US hamstring everything. Iphone users will not use a separate messenger then complain about green bubbles. So SMS is the standart, very outdated standard, in the US and since google will not build an imessage clone and make it the built in app we have a headache. 

Carriers already pushed out their RCS services roughly 2 year prior to Google making Jibe.  T-Mobile even open sourced the baseline for all the communications called IMS which gave way to things like VoLTE, WiFi calling, and RCS all of which goes over the IMS protocol, and IS a standard.  They open sourced theirs and offered it to carriers around the world just for better interloping between carriers.  So Google makes a standard based off T-Moibles standard.  Even Samsung is pushing out their own.  Anyway T-Mobile DECIDED to work with ALL standards on their network not just their own.  With that in mind it'll take time to complete support every single one of them without messing up their network.  Projection Jibe support is end of this year as well as Samsung version.  Sprint because they don't have the money nor willing to spend the resources always takes what others are willing to give them so they don't have to spend higher developmental costs.

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iMessages has a 10MB limit just like T-Mobiles RCS(technically RCS supports up to 10GB, but carrier restrictions.  Just think of all the pirating lol) last I remember.  iMessages uses data, and eats into you data pool which RCS uses data but does not eat data but counts as SMS and with SMS dying for IMS soon Apple messenger has to support IMS messaging in order to keep it's backup and actually starts to devalue iMessages hence why they added games, stickers, and doing a redesign.  The only thing that would have going for it is end to end encryption, but once Android goes full IMS if you want end to end you can use a 3rd party app and have that, but I believe manufacturers are adopting it on their own.  I haven't tested the new beta for iOS but I have a feeling they may be implementing IMS/RCS support (may not be fully turned on) just in case.

T-Mobile will let any manufacturer put their stuff in the base code, with the only thing they wish is to test it out against their security and network to ensure there is no chance the carrier can be affected by possible compromises or network strain due to bad code.  Remember T-Mobile Open sources their code.