[username190]

> If Apple were censoring messaging apps I would agree with your seemingly negative sentiment, however, as someone who has pushed out apps to the Apple and Mac app stores, I can say they absolutely do not do that.

Perhaps not in your country, but they've certainly done it before - censoring Telegram in both Russia[0] and Iran[1], for example.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/technology/telegram-apple... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/world/middleeast/iran-tel...

[sbuk]

What’s to stop governments banning RCS?

[smoldesu]

The fact that more secure alternatives are freely available, and by sabotaging SMS/iMessage they would be losing their wiretap on the nation's text messages?

[imbnwa]

Are you really suggesting governments requiring those apps be banned from distribution in their jurisdictions shares the context of the post you're replying to?

[d-lowl]

Yes. As for some other mobile OSs I'm not required to comply with whatever is on their official store, and can just install an app from a different source.