Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful
by jvolkman on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @08:29PM
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Encrypted group chats are apparently coming soon.
It’s too late at this point: the vast majority of RCS clients won’t support it (if it happens), so the green bubble that google hates is destined to remain.
Google could have avoided this by not continuously releasing and killing chat services. If they’d stuck to one they would have a much bigger number of users - people complain about iOS, but lets be real: android is a much bigger market. Google allowing both the hardware and software to fragment in basic functionality is a questionable decision.
Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful
by Melatonic on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @10:20PM
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Yea - its frankly ridiculous at this point. The original Google Chat was great and was (as far as I know) their only offering at the time. Then it all went to hell.
And now we are back to Google Chat again!
But security is besides the point: Google doesn't want RCS support for security, it wants people not to know they're communicating with a non-apple device because they're afraid of the peer pressure.
Given that android has a huge marketshare lead, and google definitely knows how to make chat apps, they just never made one and stuck with it. Instead they kept continuously shipping new, incompatible, disconnected, chat apps and services. Because of that no one really trusts Google when it says "use this chat app, this time we'll keep it around". Meanwhile a person with a first gen iPhone or iPad (or a Mac from that era) can still use iMessage to talk to someone using the latest generation software. I would guess there's a loss of feature set, but it should theoretically still work.