It’s all about the bubbles.

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

  • Zummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    710·
    1 year ago

    Sorry, this just reads to me as the little kid being angry he can’t join the bigger kids. I really believe that were the shoe and the other foot and were it Google with iMessage, they wouldn’t be so keen to let Apple use it.

    • Salamendacious@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      103·
      1 year ago

      Well Google is arguably the big kid here 70% of all cell phones are android phones. Also, Google puts its apps/services on Apple devices. There’s no way to rewind time, change a variable or two, and then play it back to see how things change.

      • dtrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        36·
        1 year ago

        That’s framed as if google is this generous corporation that’s all “Peace, love and Agnostic apps” rather than to farm data from a competitor’s users.

        Google wants all the users data regardless of the platform they’re on.

      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        Apple put their services on Android devices too. Just not iMessage.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if they cite privacy as a reason.

        • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          If they were honest, they would cite “creating the illusion of superiority via systematic exclusion which leads to profits”

      • Zummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        You can think what you want, but the fact is that Apple makes money from iMessage in the form of keeping people in its ecosystem and won’t share iMessage unless forced to. Google would do the same thing because they’re both businesses that exist to make money. Apple isn’t my friend, and Google isn’t yours. Google doesn’t want to you to message your friends in an easier manner, they want Apple to lose one of its incentives keeping users on the iPhone. Corporations are not your friend and Google has ulterior motives for saying what they said, and Apple has ulterior motives for rejecting it. I get it, though, Apple bad, Google good. With so much going on in the world, I’m glad you decided to fight for Google. That huge corporation could really use your support. They just need some money. And it does read like Google being mad they can’t play with Apple and keep people locked into iPhone like Apple does (aka little kid being mad he can’t join the big kids).