Following the news that "Beeper becomes first RCS chat app for iPhones, introducing support for Google Messages with RCS" what are your thoughts on the app and on the RCS forced by Google?
Is it worth a try? Or should I stick to Matrix and Signal?
Me too, I'm mostly interested to see how the iMessage implementation works with Android...
The only person I would message with this would be my girlfriend... And even with the option on hand we are pretty comfortable using Telegram, so it is more like a curiosity on my side.
Looks very interesting. I particularly am interesting in how they are merging all of the chat clients into one client. From what I can tell it looks like they are using Matrix Bridges or something on the back end?
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It's very convenient. Can be hosted yourself as well: https://github.com/beeper/self-host . I only use it for non-critical comms. The critical ones I keep on my own matrix server + bridges
I've been using it for a couple weeks but haven't used RCS, so I can't say specifically about that. Overall though, it's still a work in progress and is not as polished but it gets the job done (more or less). If you're really concerned about privacy using their closed source app, you can just host your own bridges in your Matrix server (the app is the only proprietary part of Beeper, the protocol is just Matrix). The app doesn't support logging in from another Matrix account, so you'll have to stick with Element (I think Element derivatives would work too) when using your own bridges. But that's probably a better option given that their own app lacks a few features.
I love the concept, though since it breaks encryption, I wouldn't use it for anything sensitive. However, once it supports Skype, I bet I'll use it a lot.
It's proprietary, therefore I have no interest in it. The fact that it uses Matrix on the server end isn't noteworthy because software freedom is about what I run on my local hardware, not what the company runs on theirs.
I would be interested to know what changes/additions their client and server make to the standard Matrix experience. I know their proprietary client is coupled to their service but can I use a standard Matrix client with their service? If normal Matrix clients cannot interact with it then the use of Matrix on the server end is but an implementation detail and not relevant to users.