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>If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone. I've never used an iphone, but Apple presumably does walled garden much better than Android. I rec
by bubblethink 3y ago
>If I didn't want a walled garden, I'd get an Android phone.
I've never used an iphone, but Apple presumably does walled garden much better than Android. I recently tried to install google messages from play store (which I haven't used in a while), and if you search for messages, the top 5 results will all be different messaging apps that have a blue icon, with the top one being adware. Embarrassingly, I fell for it thinking that this is google messages. Play store makes it very hard to see the vendor of an app. Much like search, this has been SEO'd to death, and google will put some ad before their own messaging app. Then they'll cry about Apple not supporting RCS.
- chrisco255 3y agoJust tried this experiment by typing "Messaging" in the play store. The top 3 were marked as Ads, and number 4 was "Messages by Google", with Google clearly listed as the creator on line 2.
- bubblethink 3y agoYes, you will see it if you are paying attention. If you are on auto-pilot mode and assume that the top result with the blue icon on the play store will be google messages, you will get duped. The name of the vendor for these ads is also designed to confuse and obfuscate. The top ad's vendor is "Text Messaging". A few days ago when I did this, the name of the vendor was "Top Rated App". Play store doesn't say "Vendor: Top Rated App", the text "Top Rated App" or "Text Messaging" will just appear along with a bunch of other useless information.