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With how convoluted RCS was in the beginning. Where literally US carriers had their own versions, then some manufactures had their own RCS profiles. You and your Friend could have the same phone, but different carrier and it wouldn't work. Or two carriers would agree to support each others RCS profile, but the same phone model on either carrier had different OS versions so it wouldn't work.
It was a mess.
A mess indeed, which seems to be why the rest of the world abandoned carrier/manufacturer controlled messaging and switched to WhatsApp
Which is a mistake. Never a good idea to abandon open standards and pool everything into one private business.