US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In

Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by endperform on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:17PM (#20719289)

Google is also taking 30% when someone purchases an app through Google Play, and they also take a 15% cut of subscriptions as well, so it's not just Apple.

Google forces their App Store and Assistant on you. Your Android phone manufacturer also forces other garbage on top of that as well as locking you into a version of Android with no guaranteed upgrade path. See: Samsung and Bixby.

Get your facts straight, or at least take off the blinders that is your hatred of Apple.

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Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by damnyou on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:22PM (#20719345)

Of course Google is also bad, but it at least allows sideloading and other app stores.

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Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by endperform on Friday August 16, 2019 @04:29PM (#20719407)

Which also opens up a nice new attack vector.

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Re:US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In by Dylan16807 on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:06PM (#20720176)

Talking about what non-google manufacturers do to some phones, and then about attack vectors while accusing someone else of having blinders on? You're firmly in moving-the-goalposts territory now.

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