I get like two spam SMS a year. And my SMS app always properly flags them as being spam/scams. This really is such a terrible excuse.

It's also ignoring the root issue. Adding RCS to iMessages doesn't affect the spam. You'll still get it from both SMS and RCS.

Apple not adding RCS is 100% due to keeping market share.

> I get like two spam SMS a year.

Consider yourself lucky. I get hundreds.

In recent months I get about 2 per week.

In recent weeks I get two per day. I don't know what's changed.

I've seen SMS spam maybe 3 or 4 times ever. Before Signal started permanently storing sensitive user data in the cloud (and refusing to update their privacy policy) I was using Signal for both secure communication and SMS/MMS and since I've moved away from them I still don't see any more spam now than I did then. I think the solution for the spam problem has a lot more to do with not giving your cell phone number out to every company who asks for it than it does what client you're using to read/store messages.

Of course the real solution should be on the network's end, but not giving out your number to any businesses is probably the best thing you can do while still accepting random texts from anybody.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but that’s because Signal is teeny tiny. If Signal makes it to a billion users I guarantee it will happen to them.

SMS is bigger than even iMessage, so if you can spam everyone with iMessage and more by using SMS, why would anyone bother with iMessage?

Bigger doesn't necessarily mean more profitable.

IMessage is full of profitable phone owners

That receive messages over SMS in the same app...

What's the advantage of iMessage spam? Group chat spam? Higher quality video spam? Is that worth all the effort to do your spamming only on Apple devices?

Easy targets.

Signal is not a profitable target for spammers. Those using it are least likely to be caught by spam.