On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 13:32 -0800, Tony Nelson wrote:
Someone I exchange texts with on our phones had the problem of MMS texts displaying that way, when previously they had been in line. Her provider "reset" something, which fixed it. MMS and SMS both work for texts, but are different "standards".
There's at least one more standard: RCS (rich communication services) is becoming prevelent. It's meant as an enhancement (fancier text, longer messages, file sending, etc (which sounds like reinventing email, to me).
Chances are that a few service providers will be changing software to accomodate it, and that may change other things at the same time. I can well imagine the older services being relegated to crappy support in an effort to kick people onto the new ones.