Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android

Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by jedieaston on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:19PM (#17569880)

I wonder if you look at the stats whether or not SMS is actually the most popular form of communication on Android. I live in the US, where I use iMessage and SMS is the most popular, but I hear all the time on Reddit that no one uses SMS outside stupid America and everyone uses WhatsApp/Signal/(Chinese one I'm forgetting).

Google needs to pick one, no doubt, but I wonder how relevant it is that they do (Android has much of its market share outside the US).

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by sjm-lbm on Thursday July 19, 2018 @04:27PM (#17569949)

This is a fair point, and I wouldn't be surprised if what you are saying is correct.

That said, saying "Google's startups-within-a-big-company strategy has driven most users outside of Google's chat ecosystem entirely" isn't a whole lot better.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by user5994461 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:14PM (#17570803)

It depends on the country. Some places you have to pay per SMS, some places it's free. SMS cannot be sent across borders, a big problem when traveling or living abroad.

WhatsApp is free SMS, from and to anywhere. It's an attractive offer for most of the world.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by nradov on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:06AM (#17572376)

SMS can be sent across borders in most of the world.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by user5994461 on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:35PM (#17577110)

And you'll be charged as much as $1 per SMS for doing that.

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Re:Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor... by Longhanks on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:20PM (#17570847)

Can confirm, in Germany, where Android is >75%, everybody uses WhatsApp (iOS users, too).

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