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Because they want to improve the user experience of their product. The next best reason would be “because they’ve been legally compelled to do do”, but we’re n
by moomin 4y ago
Because they want to improve the user experience of their product.
The next best reason would be “because they’ve been legally compelled to do do”, but we’re not there yet.
- CharlesW 4y ago> Because they want to improve the user experience of their product. I'm looking at years worth of conversations in Messages right now, with a healthy mix of iPhone-only conversations and mixed-platform conversations. How would my user experience be improved?
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- CharlesW 4y agoOkay, I lol’d. The good news is that Google now supports reactions since they fall back to plain text. https://www.macworld.com/article/610908/google-messages-android-green-bubbles-tapbacks-reaction-emoji.html https://www.macworld.com/article/610908/google-messages-andr...
- mattnewton 4y agoSure, but this is a brittle hack based on scraping text contents apple can change arbitrarily, and only a cosmetic one for the android user. The iPhones in a green bubble chat still see them last I checked, just, infuriatingly not the original sender who probably doesn’t realize how they are spamming the thread.
- CharlesW 4y agoFair enough, thank you!
- cayennemover 4y agoWho is “they” and who is the “user” in this context? A random Google Product Manager representing both sides seems not the way to go.