The first iPhone was essentially a copy of WebOS before it. It was hardly the first.
The first iPhone that came out in 2007 is essentially a copy of WebOS that came out in 2009...
Well that's one I've never heard before!
The first iPhone was essentially a copy of WebOS before it. It was hardly the first.
But Google’s SMS is it’s own flavorYes and Apple will respond they plan to integrate RCS into Messages which will have similar features as iMessage when an iPhone and Android phone text each other. Like I've said as an Android user I'd prefer to be able to use the stock Google Messages app and have full featured texting regardless of platform. RCS with SMS fallback does that. A standalone iMessage app doesn't.
But Google’s SMS is it’s own flavor
Respectfully… what does that mean? There are two sides to this dispute, and you’re writing as if “everybody knows there’s only one solution, so I won’t even tell you what it is.”I have an idea. Lets bring in the corrupt bureaucrats with no understanding of technology to resolve this. Brilliant!
My whole family uses Apple’s ecosystem. My son was last; he just got a MacBook after his Dell died in 18 months. (Pro Tip: Many Chase credit cards add a year of warranty to your purchase, which covered the broken Dell).Why would interoperability be better between seven different companies? If Apple were broken up, they would be seven separate companies.
Right now an iPad and an iPhone can interoperate - shared clipboard, Handoff etc. You'd be in a worse position than you are right now because Company A making iPads and iPadOS can't know what Company B making iPhones and iOS is going to put into the new version of iOS. Things will very quickly get out of sync, and nothing will work together.
Besides, we're already in that situation. Can I send a message from WhatsApp on my iPhone to Telegram on my Mum's Windows machine? Can my brother send a Signal message to Facebook Messenger? Why not? Because those are different companies, and they've all created their own apps and systems, and why should they be forced to interoperate when their technologies are supposed to be different?
Let's force all car manufacturers to make exactly the same cars. No one should be allowed to pay more for a 'better' car! I want the features of the really excellent, amazing car in my little poot-poot box on wheels! Waaah.
Oh, and "Build it all in America"?! No! Some of it should be built in Iceland, some in Portugal, some in Kenya, some in Brazil, because every country should be allowed to interoperate...
Apple want to keep the blue/green bubble racism that I hear pervades the US. That is the biggest issue, as far as I can see. That sort of user prejudice prevents a lot of users from switching to Android.Yes and Apple will respond they plan to integrate RCS into Messages which will have similar features as iMessage when an iPhone and Android phone text each other. Like I've said as an Android user I'd prefer to be able to use the stock Google Messages app and have full featured texting regardless of platform. RCS with SMS fallback does that. A standalone iMessage app doesn't.
The problem of message ecosystem lock in is much much harder to solve than this implies. Switching between messaging systems would require not only a messaging independent method of identity (so that you don't have to ask all of your contacts for their new contact info in the new messaging system), but also a way to bring your existing open conversations to a new system (not necessarily the message history of the conversation but the participants so that you don't have to remember all of the names of people you were talking to).Apple want to keep the blue/green bubble racism that I hear pervades the US. That is the biggest issue, as far as I can see. That sort of user prejudice prevents a lot of users from switching to Android.
Racism?Apple want to keep the blue/green bubble racism that I hear pervades the US. That is the biggest issue, as far as I can see. That sort of user prejudice prevents a lot of users from switching to Android.