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You know what to do, the EU Government.
They already have
TL;DR: imessage and other big message services must be able to send messages to each other (when
iMessage isn't included in that act, since it's not big enough in Europe.
Oh
As said by noodlejetski, iMessage usage in the EU is very low. It hasn't been excempt completely though, it's pending investigation.
Are there any FOSS RCS apps for Android?
Well as I can't use either of those on my degoogled Android device, Apple using RCS is irrelevant, and they should use a more open standard, like Matrix.
What do you suggest, I was just giving an example.
Signal removed it's RCS support:(
Actually, I was thinking it was RCS. It was regular text messages. Thanks for the correction.
Unfortunately RCS is on the carrier side. The most basic chat system built in by the phone carrier will likely have RCS.
Antitrust laws prohibits killing off your competition. Just because they will have RCS, doesn't mean they didn't actively killed beeper.