ManaByte
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After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
Google failed to compete with iMessage for years. Now it wants Apple to play nice.
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After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
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MaestroMike
Gold Member
No wonder women don't respond to my messages and keep blocking me because they know I'm on a Android !!
DaleinCalgary
Member
I'm confused as why a company like google can't make a decent text app.
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dorkimoe
Member
I think in Europe yes. But most people I know only use text
T8SC
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nightmare-slain
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Boo fucking hoo, Google. You’ve had YEARS to put out an iMessage competitor. I actually can’t remember all the chat apps they’ve had. It’s been a mess. Hangouts was kinda cool for a while. Is Duo still around?
if they want to compete then it’s a good thing Android is the most popular OS in the world….I don’t know maybe decide on ONE app to focus on. build it into the next Android version and make it available on all Android devices. Not just pixels but Samsungs and all the other makes. Heck make an iOS version…a Windows version and a Mac OS version. if They cant manage that then what’s the point of being one of the biggest and richest tech companies?
if they want to compete then it’s a good thing Android is the most popular OS in the world….I don’t know maybe decide on ONE app to focus on. build it into the next Android version and make it available on all Android devices. Not just pixels but Samsungs and all the other makes. Heck make an iOS version…a Windows version and a Mac OS version. if They cant manage that then what’s the point of being one of the biggest and richest tech companies?
Nope, a lot of my friends and work colleagues use Android phones, so I get green bubbles with them, hence why I rarely text them. If it ain’t iMessage, it ain’t worth texting.
RJMacready73
Simps for Amouranth
Between correct pronouns and now text colour anxiety.. what the fuck are you lot doing over in XXXL sized land? grow a set of balls ffs (disclaimer: yes i know its a click baity article)
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
After years on iPhone (I think the last Android phone I had was in 2012 or 2013), picking up an Android phone and trying to use the texting app immediately takes me back a decade if not more. Google has no one to blame but themselves for the sorry state of messaging on their devices.
Spaceman292
Banned
Kids bullying other kids for not being big enough corperate whores with phones that were bought by their parents
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
They shoot themselves in the foot constantly. How many separate messaging apps have they created and killed?
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Carrier pigeon.
How to tell me you're an Android user without telling me you're an Android user.
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
I saw some article recently that polled thousands of teenagers and I think some insane number like 90% were on iphones instead of Android.
This man is dodging a bullet lol.
This is why LMAO
DaleinCalgary
Member
Green bubbles just mean sms and apple had it between its users in the beginning.
People are thinking Apple uses blue for IOS users and green for non IOS users, not true. RCS is not encrypted and it's old, Apple shouldn't support it.
People are thinking Apple uses blue for IOS users and green for non IOS users, not true. RCS is not encrypted and it's old, Apple shouldn't support it.
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RoboFu
One of the green rats
Don’t care about the brand. I do care about being able to txt full uncompressed images and videos though which is why imsg is so great and android sucks balls. Balls I say!! \high five team Apple!
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Google messages is actually pretty feature complete. Only thing that's stopping them from being a complete iMessage clone/competitor is video because they're still bound by video limitations in SMS/MMS.
OTHERWISE, I can search for and send gifs, voice messages, and more.
OTHERWISE, I can search for and send gifs, voice messages, and more.
Thaedolus
Gold Member
In like 99% of the cases if you’re sending a message to another iPhone it defaults to iMessage and will be blue. If you’ve got spotty coverage or whatever, yeah, it’ll go through over SMS, but in almost all other cases it’s because you’re messaging a non Apple user and feel all peasant-y
And lots of people still use the message reactions in group texts with android users, so each time they do it quotes the entire text they reacted to. Now THAT is a text crime we need to start talking about more in this country
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DaleinCalgary
Member
Call it peasant-y or not it just means sms.
iMessage came out around 2010 and RCS was out 3 or so years before that and Apple has improved on its service almost yearly. Android's messaging is a mess and Google should fix that themselves.
The Pleasure
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Someone told me that when I fingered a girl instead of fingerblasted her.
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Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
It's all in the wrist
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It sucks because the images and videos come out looking like trash, not because the bubble is green.
Doesn't Messages (default messaging app for Android) force RCS? RCS is great. If Apple doesn't want to play nice, so be it.
Doesn't Messages (default messaging app for Android) force RCS? RCS is great. If Apple doesn't want to play nice, so be it.
Thaedolus
Gold Member
I do hope everyone understands I’m joking about the peasant stuff. There are pros and cons for each ecosystem, and people like what they like, nobody really cares.console wars not enough? gotta have cell phone wars too?
Tams
Gold Member
Yeah, but many Americans have this weird obsession with iMessage.
Years ago it was one of the few decent mobile options (though frankly, there were apps for other IMs around on mobile devices from pretty much the beginning), but these days it's just inertia.
There are plenty of options (hell, even Skype is available on more devices) and as much as LINE annoys me at times, it is available in exactly the same way on pretty much every modern device.
Kev Kev
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nah man youre good, i was more talking about OP. he rarely ever posts anything positive or genuinely helpful. he only chimes in when there is an opportunity to criticize someone else, or when he feels hes right and their wrong as if its his duty to correct them, or inserts himself into a controversy or argument, or in this case actually starts the controversy/argument.
listen, im no stranger to shit posting and being a little controversial (and a fair bit of that is healthy for the forum, no doubt), but i also try to balance that out with helpful posts, words of kindness, gratitude and encouragement, and just generally being a positive helpful member in the community. and i just dont see much of that that from certain people on this board, sometimes i dont see it at all from them. instead i see shit like this.
but hey its a discussion board and its just for fun and were all just fucking around, so no biggie. but it would be nice to see some more selflessness around here, and certain members actually be more uplifting to others and contribute some positive stuff to the community...
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
All the women in the family have iPhones
I say the original difference is some media stuff I send don't show on iPhone for some reason
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Both are shitWhen you get a picture/video sent to you from an android user
I don't understand how Google hasn't just ripped of iMessage already
Tried sending a HQ image to a iPhone user and they just got a error image can't be displayed.
Sent it to Samsung Galaxy and it compressed it but at least they got it.
Tams
Gold Member
I don't understand why you don't just use WhatsApp, Viber, LINE, Facebook Messenger, even fucking Skype.When you get a picture/video sent to you from an android user
I don't understand how Google hasn't just ripped of iMessage already
Bbbbb...but privacy! They all use encryption. If you really care about that then there's Telegram or Signal. And if they really want to get you, they'll either get your messages somehow or something else incriminating some other way. Plus, no one really cares about your cock pics that much.
Hari Seldon
Member
Do they talk to people who don't have those apps? If not then there is your answer.