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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by kcmp on Friday April 20, 2018 @04:33AM (#16883118)
An article from the verge mentioned that people were moving away from texting and are instead using services like imessage and fb messenger that restricted carriers from controlling text messaging. Carriers could either change or they could watch their control of texting slip away. This option satisfies the desire of carriers to keep their control and google's desire to fix the messaging experience on Android
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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by numbsafari on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:12AM (#16884896)
... and nary a mention of users. I do think this is Google's biggest weakness. They don't see the end-users of any of their products as their customers and they don't seem to have developed the corporate infrastructure to start doing that any time soon.
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