It's that time of year again, folks. As the tech world has sights set on the latest Apple event that is producing the new iPhone 16 as we speak, we all know we'll be seeing slightly improved phones, some impressive specs, and a few 'innovative" or "magic" new features from Apple. For me, however, the...
You know it’ll call and SMS because those are telecom standard. The same is true for RCS. RCS is made by the same people who made SMS and basic voice calling.
The 4G spec people made RCS services optional for carriers. The Chinese government made it mandatory. Even Chinese dumbphones are going to support RCS once they start putting 5G in them for better coverage.
Beeper Mini is mostly closed (there’s a source dump out there but that’s not maintained) but it has bridges for all the major chat services, all completely open source, based on Matrix bridging. You’re free to take that code and make an app yourself if you want to rip out the Matrix dependency.
Personally, I’m waiting for MLS and MIMI to be taken up, but that’s still a work in progress.