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It doesn’t matter if Google ruined android messaging. The point is, tons of people use android and google is trying to make it better. The title of this article
by leoh 5y ago
It doesn’t matter if Google ruined android messaging. The point is, tons of people use android and google is trying to make it better. The title of this article suggests an orientation towards google of contempt, as opposed to showing that google is trying to do right by its former mistakes. And does not point out that apple has not been nice in the past either.
The article promotes a zero sum mentality. That only apple should win because iMessage is better and because google already messed up.
As opposed to a value oriented mentality that a new standard, RCS, could be better for android and iOS users alike.
Google hasn’t always been a great company. I don’t understand why we can’t celebrate wins, especially those that would benefit others, such as rcs.
To do otherwise is to indefinitely call some parties good and some parties bad, to engage in black and white thinking. Which is more harmful for ourselves and says more about ourselves than the individuals and corporations of the world.
- alimov 5y ago“..google is trying to do right by its former mistakes” - this entire thread is a joke. I mean come on… they don’t even let their products have a chance to breathe before shutting them down just so they can release the same product with tweaked branding and a different UI.
- dagmx 5y agoI don't think the article is promoting a zero sum game. It's rightfully calling out Google for calling out Apple when both companies are to blame for this.
- gnabgib 5y agoWhat was posted by the official Android account ("Message should not benefit from bullying. Texting should bring us together, and the solution exists. Let’s fix this as one industry."), and the opinion of the article's author ("Google took to Twitter this weekend to complain that iMessage is just too darn influential with today's kids") bare no relation. The author clearly doesn't like RCS, which is an opinion he's entitled to.. but Google's approach to try and get multiple vendors to adopt an open standard (RCS), instead of creating a walled garden seems like the better path.
- dmak 5y agoRCS just seems like an improvement over a legacy infrastructure. Why do we need it at all?
- fundad 5y agoThe truth is Google could introduce an app today, and if it was good enough and outdid iMessage, and people would start switching over within a few years. They could make it part of Chrome to supercharge adoption but nope. Google sounds like dudes who whine about cancellation.
- alimov 5y agoThe problem is that the same app would be replaced by another Google messaging app before any mass adoption could take place..