Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by kaladin-jasnah on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:31PM
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> Texting on iPhone just works.
Downloading Telegram, Signal, Discord, WhatsApp, or the number of third-party messaging applications that is widely used by a number of people, within and outside the blue bubble of the US "just works" as well. And unlike iMessage, these platforms let you chat with other people. What's so wrong with that? Is it too much friction to click to install a (superior with objectively tons more features than iMessage that work on all its platforms) third-party messaging client? Telegram even has games, which are quite popular amongst the teenagers, just like iMessage.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by Karunamon on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:16AM
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>Is it too much friction to click to install a third-party messaging client?
Yes. This is why defaults matter. In this case, it generated a network effect.
Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone
by kaladin-jasnah on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:24AM
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Clearly not in Europe or India or China. First world problems, I guess.
Apple decided to build better messaging on their platform. They saw that carriers simply didn’t care or understood messaging and decided to innovate and take care of the experience. Texting on iPhone just works. We should celebrate that. Google could have created a competing product as feature rich but instead decided to spawn and kill 10 different chat apps.
> Where Android is irrelevant and neglected
Honestly, the android handset makers are already neglecting their own OS, looking at the barely three years of support they offer.
> Please do not encourage the spread of iMessage
I already do. Honestly, I support the platform that just works. To me a phone is simply a tool to get things done.