Android Messages will reportedly become the default messaging app on Samsung phones - Android

A Reddit poster who claims to be a Samsung engineer says that the company is thinking about making Android Messages the default messaging app on its phones replacing Samsung's own messaging app. The Redditor says that this is being done to "to reduce headaches down the road for US devices." The headache involves creating a universal version of the Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging platform called RCS Chat in the country. Recently, Google was able to bypass carriers in the U.K. and France in order to complete the rollout of RCS in those two countries. And while the search giant says ...