I'm excited to hopefully soon be ditching SMS. RCS is the big new thing that's going to revolutionize texting without needing both ends to be using the same app. The mobile carriers have been taking way too long to implement Google's Jibe RCS standard, the carriers have their own RCS standards which aren't compatible with Google's so Google decided to take things into their own hands it seems. Apparently this will use Google's services for the RCS messages to go through instead of relying on the carriers.