I didn't know that Google built encryption on top of the standard, I thought it was part of it.
Besides that though, Google would be making the dumbest business move if they didn't let Apple's potential RCS implementation talk to theirs.
Besides that, the point that RCS is still an open standard stands and should replace SMS just because of how archaic and old it is. Heck, there's still a character limit.
The issue is content. Sites like daily motion didn't have the content to bring in the user base. No users means less incentive to make content means less incentive to make content for it, means less users and so on... that's the real reason no one's got competition
Another sane take. Seriously, a breath of fresh air after seeing people on both Reddit and Lemmy talking about this with the entitlement of the average r/ChoosingBeggars post
To be fair, this is the most sane take I've seen about this from the pro adblock side. That's actually fucked up if they killed it out of nowhere but also sounds like Google.
Yeah, but where's the user base and content? That's why YouTube is successful.
As much as I love to shit on Elon Musk and twitter X, the fact that he's paying users that generate traffic to his website means that he realizes the importance of user generated content. That's one good thing I commend him for.