You be surprised how many old folk are tech-savvy these days, I am 59, so not ancient, but still getting there. We have handsets at work for the customers to use to shop and when we had them I did not think it would catch on, lots of older people around here and to my surprise they did. I don't use them myself, prefer to go around with a basket/trolley and go to a normal checkout. But i was surprised at how many older people use them.
You won't if RCS is automatically switched on, because how would old folk know the difference, let alone what to do about it? (not necessarily you, but old folk in general who are not very tech savvy)
Also, you have to remember, we have used tech from the youngest age, my first computer was when I was when I was around 16 years old, sure it was onjly a ZX81, but it was a computer, we had VCRs that we had to programme the timers, something my parents never had when they were younger. Even people in their 70's/80's now, most will still have had tech of some sort.
My parents would have had a radio in their younger age.
I know of a few people at my age or older that have disabled RCS on their Android phone. I don't need to disable it as i use a different text app don't support RCS.
The one problem with RCS is that it use data connection, and some of us don't go for big data packages, I have 4GB on my sim only contract, It is cheap, a fiver a month, unlimited text and unlimited voice. I can connect to Wi-fi in the house and at work, so I don't need a hige data package. But if I started to use RCS and allow people to send all sort of rubbish to me like useless videos and that sort of thing, it would start eating though my data.
I know people who have even less data or PAYG. This is why the people I said aboout above have disabled RCS. or one of the reasons.
SMS is fine for what I need it for, I am not sending messages of great importance, if I do then I will send it via email, encrypted. The other thing is I don't like google messages, i prefer textra.
