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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by Zak on Thursday November 16, 2023 @06:52PM (#38297356)
Google had the opportunity to own this space a decade ago when they made Hangouts the default SMS client on Android. It's exactly what Apple did with iMessage, but Hangouts was cross-platform.

It's absolutely bizarre to me they didn't iterate on that. I'm kind of glad they didn't.

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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by starttoaster on Thursday November 16, 2023 @07:01PM (#38297420)
On the flipside, Hangouts being sunset is the main reason I eventually left the Android ecosystem. Hangouts on a Pixel phone on Google Fi service was excellent for an SMS app. Feeling snubbed by the life getting choked out of Hangouts, I'm no longer a user of all 3.
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Re:Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next... by patmorgan23 on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:59PM (#38325634)
Yeah, it really is the post child for Google not being able to innovate in it's modern form.

What's really changed about their core products in the last 10 years? (maps, mail, ads, YouTube, docs/gsuite) some of them have gotten some nice QoL improvements but nothing has really been added to that list because they keep killing products off.

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