As an Android user, it'd be nice if replying "No" to "Do you want RCS?" meant "Never ask me again" and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter".
> and wasn't just interpreted as "ask me again in next week and every week thereafter".
It gets even worse; last week, on a relative's phone, after weeks of clicking "not now" it just force-enabled RCS, and displayed something like a "we automatically enabled RCS for you, here's what you should do if you want to disable it again" (completely confusing said non-technical relative). Needless to say, I quickly went into the settings and disabled it again; I just hope that it having been enabled for a few minutes doesn't mean it will no longer be able to receive messages from RCS users (like the rumors I heard many years ago of people who enabled iMessage and later changed back to Android no longer receiving any SMS from iMessage users).
A lot of people I know can't afford a data plan for their phones, so when RCS becomes enabled it just bounces all their incoming/outgoing messages and it is sometimes days or weeks before they realize.
And even for those who can afford a data plan for their phones, they might have gone over their data allowance for the current month, so the data won't work until it refreshes at the start of the next monthly cycle. And obviously, having one more thing using data makes it even easier to go over the limit.
For me, SMS is solely for receiving 2FA codes and sending message to my provider to check how much data allowance I have left for the month. I use Whatsapp for messages to people.
Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app
Yup it's completely disingenuous on Google's part.
Some people don't have data but Google doesn't care, they force clueless users to enable RCS anyway and then they're on their own to figure out why they don't receive messages anymore!
