Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
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Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#2They would have captured 100% of the messaging market.
Reminds me of '90s *Nix companies with sales bros wanting to sling around overpriced hardware, preventing expansion of the company in other fronts.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#3They would have captured 100% of the messaging market. Reminds me of '90s *Nix companies with sales bros wanting to sling around overpriced hardware, preventing expansion of the company in other fronts.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data.
And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#4Reminds me of BBM (blackberry messenger). Only available on their hardware.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#5They would have captured 100% of the messaging market. Reminds me of '90s *Nix companies with sales bros wanting to sling around overpriced hardware, preventing expansion of the company in other fronts.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data. And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
I quite literally don't need to care about the blue bubble nonsense. It's a great flag for a person I can happily ignore.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#6They would have captured 100% of the messaging market. Reminds me of '90s *Nix companies with sales bros wanting to sling around overpriced hardware, preventing expansion of the company in other fronts.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data. And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
> (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
Haha, what?
Anyway, joke's on them, I use Signal.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#7Reminds me of BBM (blackberry messenger). Only available on their hardware.
They did eventually release it for Android and iOS, but only after they had declined into almost complete irrelevance.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#8They would have captured 100% of the messaging market. Reminds me of '90s *Nix companies with sales bros wanting to sling around overpriced hardware, preventing expansion of the company in other fronts.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data. And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
The bubble is a US thing primarily. Not because Americans are uniquely prone to it, but because iPhones are not as common outside of the US.
But don't worry non-Americans, people are judging you on the basis of how you dress, eat, walk and talk and deciding silently whether to let you in their social circle or not.
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. They could probably monetize that better than hardware sales too, most likely via Apple Wallet payments and data. And the whole blue/green bubble pretentiousness would have never happened, which is funny because so many Android users still have no idea that's even happening to them or just assume they don't need to care about anybody that cares about that. (protip: its affecting your life and relationships)
I quite literally don't need to care about the blue bubble nonsense. It's a great flag for a person I can happily ignore.
For 1:1 messages it doesnt matter, but breaks group chats when a green bubble is added
Re: Eddy Cue wanted to bring iMessage to Android in 2013
#10Like many others, I switched from iOS to Android during a time when it (edit: this transition process) was most fraught with very unexpected failure modes. I remember being absolutely incredulous that anyone thought this experience reflected positively on Apple in any way-- it seemed incompetent at best, and had a strong stink of maliciousness to boot.
I've always seen this as major bungle on their part, and it's one of many reasons I will never go back to their not-so-safe walled garden by choice.