Google Messages blocking RCS on rooted Android devices is probably for the best

What must be a very small subset of Android users should be very angry with Google for blocking RCS support in Google Messages on their smartphones. These users have rooted their phones to run a different version of Android than the one the device shipped with. We're no longer in the early years of Android, when rooting phones was quite popular, allowing consumers to run custom Android builds on their devices. 

If that's related to security, I don't think there's a problem with Google blocking RCS on rooted handsets. Or spam. It's just like what Apple did with Beeper Mini after Beeper found a way to enable iMessage on Android devices. The fact that Google did this without giving the affected users any heads-up is the real problem.

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