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At this point isn’t building the software that enables people to be content using your phones significantly more valuable that reading texts in transit? The adv
by tbrock 9y ago
At this point isn’t building the software that enables people to be content using your phones significantly more valuable that reading texts in transit? The advertising gains could be had by building local profiles using unencrypted texts on the device itself. Just encrypt as it flows through the network, in that case I at least know google can read them but nobody else can.
The opportunity cost of screwing up something as basic as messaging experience on a phone is enormous.
Additionally with Android I still can’t send/receive sms via my computer like I can with my iPhone using 1st party tools (yes sms, in addition to iMessage work with my iPhone). I’d like to use android but this sort of messaging experience is table stakes.
What the heck is Google doing? I’d want to work there just to fix this because they are blowing it.
- nandhp 9y ago> Additionally with Android I still can’t send/receive sms via my computer like I can with my iPhone using 1st party tools (yes sms, in addition to iMessage work with my iPhone). I’d like to use android but this sort of messaging experience is table stakes. According to The Verge, a web interface is coming soon (presumably as a result of development effort being redirected from Allo to Messages) > So expect a couple things to happen on the app front. First, Google will finally make a desktop web interface for texting There's a screenshot in this article (about half-way down; if you're lucky this link will take you to it): https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-messages-chat-rcs-anil-sabharwal-imessage-texting#gvznFG https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-m...