Technology

37712 readers

253 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

The green bubble problem is about to get even worse (Apple/Android) (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

96 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The issue is that if Google does create a competitor, or an open standards competitor is created, like RCS vs iMessage, Apple isn't going to implement that, or in any way interoperate with it. So even if Google or someone else made a better system that worked beautifully on Android and any hypothetical alternatives, but Apple only implemented their own system and refused to share, things would remain shit. Which is exactly where we are.

If Google had a popular competitor to iMessage, Apple users would feel left out, and that's what would force integration.

All they had to do was add sms to one of their chat apps, and people would have migrated over word of mouth for the extra features slowly overtime.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is uniquely an issue in the U.S. because there are plenty of popular cross-platform competitors that are widely used in Europe: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram.

iMessage is unpopular in Europe precisely because it's not interoperable and your friend group will look at you funny if you want to use some stupid system that only works on iPhones.

Nobody uses SMS for anything here, aside from notifications from businesses and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am in Europe and I use SMS for things like birthday wishes with the people who insist on doing everything in WhatsApp or some other technology I don't care making an account on. But then I never really understood what people liked about phone only messaging systems in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All they had to do was add sms to one of their chat apps, and people would have migrated over word of mouth for the extra features slowly overtime.

You just described "Google Hangouts".