Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple

Zummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • dtrain@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google puts out a lot of free services: Gmail, maps, docs, sheets, voice, etc. It makes sense that they’re paying for those services some how.

      Broadcast television is free and paid for with commercials. TV targeted the ads with the content of the show. Soap operas are called that because women typically watched them and women in those days bought the household supplies and that’s who advertised on those shows.

      Google’s basically doing the same thing. They just have a different way of targeting the add. It’s a pretty open exchange.

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  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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

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    • Salamendacious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Come on. There isn’t anything near parity with the cross platforming of apps. Apple has a few (three of them are music apps) and I believe Google puts all or nearly all their apps on iOS.

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      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When did I say there was parity? I just pointed out they do create Android apps for some of their services.

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    • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they were honest, they would cite “creating the illusion of superiority via systemic exclusion”

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      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why be honest when you can lie and say it’s for someone’s benefit?

        There probably are privacy implications, which makes it a good one.

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• SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sucking that Jobs peen.

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  • Zummy@lemmy.world ⁨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).

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