On 2023-04-01 02:21, gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
On 3/30/23 12:49 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2023-03-27 15:38, Per Jessen wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
.... I have bumped into sites talking about creating your own app and using your own push notifications.
There is a possibility that I have not heard mentioned. Maybe it doesn't exist. Google is pushing an SMS replacement, RCS. Apple refuses to implement it, so iphones do not support it. Android does. It needs help from the providers; in fact, google is not needed if the providers had moved to support it directly, but as they didn't, google moved to do it themselves, and only then providers moved.
It uses internet for sending messages "somehow". It can send more than text, and is always gratis.
In the USA, SMS sending is gratis, so there is not much interest. But, for instance, it costs me 1€ to send an SMS to an iphone at the other side of the Atlantic, zero to most android phones.
Ok, the thing is, there could appear servers to send RCS to phones at zero cost. I googled, did not find it.
(<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services>)
Years ago I actually read Uncle Goo's EULA and came away thinking, he's going to know more about me than my mother and my lifelong girlfriend together... plus, have a license to use all the info gratis. So caveat emptor.
I think I read the original one, or one of the early ones. When it was not google, but gmail, and one needed an invitation to get a mail account. They clearly said what they would do. Machine read your email was clearly there, not hidden at all, not minced words or clever language.
OTOH, you might be able to fake an rcs server to send a message to your phone using that protocol, depending upon how demanding the protocol is. E.g., long, long ago I wrote a very small script to send text messages from a few job-corporate servers to my pager (yeah, "long, long ago"). Not being a real server, my script would not re-send the message later if my pager was turned off. Other than that, it worked fine. I know zilch about rcs, so don't bet real money on this suggestion.
It would be nice if someone does that :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)