• Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Google has no ability to offer iMessage compatibility as it’s locked down by Apple. Allegedly Apple devs had a version of iMessage ready to launch on Android and the Apple execs decided to kill it because they felt that keeping iMessage exclusive to Apple would keep users locked in, which clearly they were right about. I’m not interested in a discussion over which phone is better than the other but I don’t care for the false narrative that Google is the one keeping iMessage off of Android.

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      1 year ago

      I wasn’t implying google is keeping it off of android. Everyone knows apple gate keeps it to keep people on iPhone.

      I’m just saying that without it, I can’t go back to android.

      • Maltese_Liquor@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Fair enough. Maybe one day these companies will stop being total dicks about tying basic functionality to proprietary apps and OSs and we can all finally just choose the stuff we want to choose. Will probably never happen but I can dream.