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Two of the GMS moves do really bother me: 1) Location API changes - Moving these into GMS is a bad decision, and I think hurts the core platform 2) Hangouts -
by jsight 13y ago
Two of the GMS moves do really bother me:
1) Location API changes - Moving these into GMS is a bad decision, and I think hurts the core platform
2) Hangouts - Moving messaging into a non-standards compliant and closed source solution hurts everyone (except Google, at least in the short-term)
These to me indicate a move towards a more closed model within Google generally, and I think that is terribly unfortunate.
- echeese 13y agoBoth of those still exist in AOSP. I'm guessing the location API changes are to allow the API to access Google's proprietary WiFi location service.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoHangouts is moving to WebRTC, a different but equally standards-based and Open Source solution.
- throwaway2048 13y agoWebRTC is a transport/application level API for building things on top of, it is NOT an open interoperability standard of the same sort XMPP is at all. iMessage uses TCP, but that doesn't make it an open source application with an open protocol.
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoDoesn't iChat use XMPP? Whether XMPP or WebRTC are open, and open source, is different from whether services that run on them are open to federation. But what the post I responded to claimed was about the tech, and the tech will be just as standardized and just as open source.