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Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by djrogers on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:51AM (#20002771)
> They claim to be a services company but they still can't seem to let go of tying it to devices.

They've shipped apple music on Andriod since day 1, have had it on Sonos for several years, and in the last 6 months have announced & started to ship TV on tons of actual TVs and non-apple straming boxes.

They've 'let go' of tying services to devices, but iMessage isn't a paid service so the advantage to shipping it on other platforms is lower.

Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by tw04 on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:14PM (#20004486)
>They've shipped apple music on Andriod since day 1

They acquired a product (beast music) that already had an Android version and didn't deprecate it, congrats?

>have had it on Sonos for several years

Sonos had to pay a license and write the code... I'm not sure I'd hold that up as an example of them being open.

> started to ship TV on tons of actual TVs and non-apple straming boxes.

Literally hasn't been released and isn't scheduled to be until "Fall of 2019".

>They've 'let go' of tying services to devices, but iMessage isn't a paid service so the advantage to shipping it on other platforms is lower.

Right, so charge for Messenger on other platforms. Nobody asked them to give it away.

Re:The Huawei Disaster Reveals Google’s Iron Grip on Android by votepaunchy on Friday May 24, 2019 @03:33PM (#20004632)
>> started to ship TV on tons of actual TVs and non-apple straming boxes.

> Literally hasn't been released and isn't scheduled to be until "Fall of 2019".

“A whole new world of entertainment just opened up, because the Apple TV app is now available on select 2018 and 2019 Samsung TVs...”

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00082624/