SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – Samsung Electronics (Nasdaq: SAMS) today announced it has acquired NewNet Communications (RCS), a Canadian-based company that may be developing its own RCS standard messaging applications. One such application is Apple’s iMessage.

Samsung’s previous mobile messaging application, Chaton, had a large number of users in a period of time, but in the end in front of competitors eclipsed. ChatON launched in 2011, four years later in March 2015 was closed. In the meantime, the application of active users to a large number of WhatsApp, Viber and WeChat competitors. SS2B003

After the acquisition of NewNet, Samsung may consider re-development of a chat platform. In the acquisition statement, Samsung said consumers will “benefit from advanced messaging experiences such as enhanced call features, group chat, easy sharing and transfer of large files and high-definition photos,” which apparently implies RCS support is part of the program . 2ST5949

Interestingly, Samsung’s interest may not be for Galaxy users to develop proprietary messaging applications, but the development can be widely used, and perhaps cross-platform applications.