Re:Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices
by bitpush on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:22PM
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How did you manage to shift the conversation to Google in a thread about Apple?
Re:Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices
by anonymars on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:24PM
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I think the point was that if Google weren't so inept, iMessage wouldn't be such a monopoly
And you know, maybe they have a point. I especially think about Microsoft and MSN Messenger/Skype. How do you fumble away not one but two dominant messaging apps?
Re:Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices
by ewoodrich on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @01:48AM
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OP's point is about Apple intentionally fragmenting communication in social groups as an ecosystem play (trickling down to bullying starting in grade school etc) so Google's messaging marketshare would only be relevant if there was some reason to believe it would have cowed Apple into interoperating.
Re:Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices
by gilfoy on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:25AM
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iMessage wouldn’t need to interoperate. Look at WhatsApp, works great on iOS and Android and dominates the market in a lot of the world.
Re:Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices
by gilfoy on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @07:22AM
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Because there are exactly two players in the game, and we’re in a thread under a whiny hyperbolic diatribe from someone that had the former.
Why didn’t Google deliver an alternative to iMessage? Did they choose not to? Is it actually hard? Are they just too incompetent at making software that isn’t for running infrastructure?
Apple didn't make SMS bad, it just was. Apple has since implemented RCS and it hasn't changed how I communicate with people from my iPhone at all.
Google should probably take most of the blame for repeatedly fumbling messaging on non-Apple platforms for the past 2 decades. Every time they had something that was getting any amount of traction it got quickly replaced with some stupid new, worse messaging app so a PO could get a promotion.