The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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Let's Chat about RCS
The Verge's Dieter Bohn dives into the messy past and uncertain future of Rich Communication Services, or RCS, a new texting standard that Google had been pushing for Android users.
Guests include:
- Sanaz Ahari, Senior Director of Communications Products at Google
- Ron Amadeo, reviews editor at Ars Technica
Relevant links:
- RCS: What it is and why you might want it
- AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile have finally agreed to replace SMS with a new RCS standard
- A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
- Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS in Android Messages beta
- SVP of Android offers open invitation to help Apple put RCS texting on the iPhone
Produced by Andru Marino, Liam James, and Dieter Bohn
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