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Google Messaging Fragmentation Boomerangs
Google Post #4765 · source on Telegram

Google Messaging Fragmentation Boomerangs

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A dark-mode tweet screenshot from Zac Sweers, @ZacSweers, reads: "Google: “you need to finally standardize your messaging app!!!” Apple: “sorry I missed that message. Did you send it on allo, google voice, text, gchat, meet, chords, hangouts, google wallet, google pay, google pay, or google wallet”". The sibling metadata links to Android's Get The Message campaign, which pressured Apple over RCS/iMessage interoperability. The joke is that Google criticizing Apple's messaging standardization problem invites Apple to point at Google's long, confusing history of overlapping and discontinued messaging-adjacent products.

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Google Apple MobileDev Communication IndustryTrends Hype

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Google Apple Android Ios MobileDevelopment AppleEcosystem AppleProducts CommunicationBreakdown CommunicationGap Miscommunication CompatibilityIssues VendorLockIn BigTechCompanies TechIndustryIrony

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Google asked for one standard message; Apple apparently checked every deprecated inbox in the product graveyard first.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Google asked for one standard message; Apple apparently checked every deprecated inbox in the product graveyard first.

  2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

    I hope apple will never use google standards

    1. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

      Does apple use any standards that aren't their own?

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

        I hope not lel /s

      2. @RiedleroD 4y

        soon USB C

      3. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

        Well actually theres a lot…

      4. @RiedleroD 4y

        also the ARM architecture

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          probably some generic design rules too

        2. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

          They have their own ISA that's not exactly compatible with others

          1. @RiedleroD 4y

            on the M1, yes. But on their phones it's regular ARM I think

            1. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

              I'd be surprised if iphone used regular isa, that was part of an agreement apple signed that they can whatever they want

          2. @RiedleroD 4y

            I don't know what an ISA is though btw

            1. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

              https://www.arm.com/glossary/isa

              1. @RiedleroD 4y

                ah, thanks

      5. @chupasaurus 4y

        OpenBSD?

        1. @RiedleroD 4y

          Unix

          1. @chupasaurus 4y

            There is no such standard, and there are many flavors of BSD Unix)

            1. @RiedleroD 4y

              there is such a standard (afaik), just no implementation (that I know of) that follows it completely

              1. @chupasaurus 4y

                You've remembered SUS (pun unintended)?

              2. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

                Didn't Bell Labs follow it completely?

                1. @RiedleroD 4y

                  idk, but from my experience, everything is an UNIX system 'except for this and that'

                  1. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

                    Bell Labs kinda started whole thing and then there was huge legal battle over it that later allowed for creation of linux, BSD and everything around it :p

                    1. @RiedleroD 4y

                      right. I should really read more about linux history (or IT history in general)

      6. @azizhakberdiev 4y

        Phone calls

  3. @RiedleroD 4y

    …you can't send messages over google wallet, google pay, google wallet or google pay, right?

  4. @Araalith 4y

    It's not about standardizing but about meeting the industry standards.

  5. @RiedleroD 4y

    allo → google facetime voice → voice messages? text → SMS chat → SMS over IP meet → like ms teams I think chords → no idea hangouts → worse whatsapp I think they forgot google+ btw

    1. @PeliemeniDesu 4y

      Isn't google+ dead already?

      1. @RiedleroD 4y

        yeah, but so are two of the google pay/wallet ones (I think they're currently stashing one of them too)

  6. @niyazi_gg 4y

    who uses text messaging anyway? It's not that RCA is better or worse than SMS, it's that why would you use either, when there are better apps for that already? I mean, we're in one right now

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      you sir just found out why google+ and hangouts died

  7. @RiedleroD 4y

    I'm honestly not that knowledgable on the subject. I just know that the M1 (and M2) are not really 100% ARM.

  8. @niyazi_gg 4y

    I haven't experienced absence of interner in a very long time. Like, when you're in the deep basement or something?

    1. @RiedleroD 4y

      I literally live in the basement and I've still got connection lol

  9. @Box_of_the_Fox 4y

    That's why Bell Labs might have followed it completely but I'm not sure

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