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I keep reading this is “a US issue”. It isn’t and it isn’t just iMessage. In Japan, walk up and down the crowds in the subway and an astounding majority of people have an iPhone. Most people are using Line to message. There’s more to it than blue text bubbles.
Over the years Apple has fixed a lot of the annoyances that Android users had with iOS, and meanwhile Google has locked down Android, implemented measures to prevent rooting/customization, made all their apps a constant A/B/C/D test controlled by server-side flags that constantly rearrange your UIs and prevent the ability to sideload specific app versions, been less generous with the free service offerings, and repeatedly shut down, re-launch, re-brand, and overhaul all their apps and services.
Google does a pretty good job at selling iPhones.
That is so true!!! Constant ui changes in google apps are fucking infuriating. One day for 24 hours I even had COMPLETELY missing watch later playlist on YouTube and I use it all the time.
Yeah this is one of my biggest issues with Google overall: they're wildly inconsistent. Apple's apps mostly stay the same, FaceTime is just FaceTime and has been forever. Google on the other hand changes which app they're pushing in any given category like every couple of years and it's incredibly annoying. Every time I check back in it's like the apps are either designed in a totally different way, called something different out of nowhere, or totally deprecated and replaced with another app.