Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by kbenson on Thursday May 31, 2018 @11:21PM
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I'm not sure how to interpret the idea that iMessage is doing it right but Google was wrong to shift from talk to hangouts. Hangouts is basically iMessage but you can actually reach the other half of the population that doesn't use Apple.
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Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by Spooky23 on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:46AM
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Hangouts is yet another app. imesssge just works and gracefully degrades when a non iOS person is included.
Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by kbenson on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:36AM
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That's exactly how hangouts works on Nexus and Pixel devices.
Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by koko775 on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:00AM
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It's a closed system too, though.
Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by kbenson on Friday June 01, 2018 @01:43AM
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Yes. But if iMessage is presented as the success and as an example of what Google could have had part of if they only hadn't switched to hangouts, I'm not sure how it works as evidence since google switched to be more like iMessage.
I'm not arguing that I think a system should or should not be open, just that I don't understand how the argument that was presented is supposed to work.
Re:America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook
by Spooky23 on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:22AM
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All communication systems are in the process of flipping back to closed systems.
The major open ones (mail and POTS) are either going away as telcos divest and people stop answering the phone or consolidating into a small number of big players as what we see with email.
The 2030s will probably bring back the future equivalent of Telex