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This isn't in contradiction of what I just said. If anything, it supports it, because 55% isn't a "monopoly" but their behavior is anti-competitive, and they ha
by partiallypro 3y ago
This isn't in contradiction of what I just said. If anything, it supports it, because 55% isn't a "monopoly" but their behavior is anti-competitive, and they have been propelled into this position in part because of that behavior.
- Jtsummers 3y agoApp store and browser, I'll agree with you on. The arguments around RCS vs iMessage and USB-C vs Lightning are very weak, though, and largely based on an ahistorical/atemporal understanding of the world. USB-C wasn't even available when Lightning came about so it wasn't an alternative until after the fact. You can be annoyed with the length of the transition, but it was inevitable and pretty much every Apple device but the iPhone has already transitioned as of last year (wireless mouse and keyboard still use it to charge, IIRC). RCS was a poor solution to a carrier problem (non-carrier locked messaging platforms let people move more easily between carriers) that Google only endorsed to make themselves look better after fucking up their dozen messaging platforms in a dozen years (not sure if a dozen is too many or too few, I lost track a while ago). I still don't get why a technical crowd wants RCS given it's carrier locked like MMS/SMS and has poor E2EE without any guarantees of E2EE (if your carrier doesn't support it, you don't get it).