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Doesn't Google Fi Message Sync still not work with RCS? And does Google really think that begging for Apple to stop making Android look bad is the best way to demonstrate Android's quality?

  "The experience on our platform sucks because of them! Blame them, not us!"
  "So if I switch to an iPhone then everything will work better? Sounds like I have a solution!"

Also, the comments on the video are pretty good.

  > Google: Everyone should use RCS!
  > Google Voice User: Please sir, may we have RCS? We love it!
  > Google: No!
  > Google Voice User: ok :-(

And the evergreen

  > I'd love to see Google launch a messenger app that they don't give up three years later.

Does anyone still use sums for group chat? Even on Android or iPhone? That's what WhatsApp is for… the family group chat with about 15 users of iPhone and Android uses WhatsApp… is that not normal at this stage?

WhatsApp had a blip of popularity in the US back in 2013, but people moved over to iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and Snapchat in the years since. I mostly blame the design, since WhatsApp was quite hard to look at for years. I get the feeling that people in the US view WhatsApp as old technology. I still use WhatsApp occasionally to talk to friends from European countries, and especially if I'm on vacation somewhere in Europe. But then again, the same goes with WeChat and China. The feature set in all the messaging apps are comparable. You have to remember how large the market penetration is for iPhones in the US, so the default is iMessage (which falls back to SMS).

I think it depends on the country. In the US, a lot of people don't use whatsapp, and I certainly don't want Meta or Zuck involved in anything I do day-to-day.

I don't know a single person that uses WhatsApp.

I briefly installed and used it 7 or 8 years ago for the 2 weeks I was traveling around Europe, never used it again.

Hard pass on any messaging app that’s tied to Meta/facebook.

> Does anyone still use sums for group chat?

I do with fellow olds, and my grade-school-age kids’ group chats are all either Discord or SMS.

I hate the Apple/Google text message incompatibility — but I can't argue with the results... I switched from Android to iPhone after years of my friends complaining about me degrading our group chat experience.

I was stubborn at first, but some messages would get sent out of order or dropped altogether, and finally I succumbed to the pressure.

I am an iPhone user. Where’s the

> Apple/Google text message incompatibility

SMS works. I think you meant iMessage, didn’t you? That’s not a messaging incompatibility. That’s just a messaging platform that is only supposed to work on Apple devices nowhere else.

I assume you’re from USA (because nowhere else I’ve known people to universally adopt a messaging platform that works only one kind of hardware). You know there are and where messaging options that don’t even discriminate based on what OS you’re from.

> I switched from Android to iPhone after years of my friends complaining about me degrading our group chat experience.

Really? Is this a common thing?

I have heard that in the US people will exclude you from group chats if you are on Android because they can only manage iMessage.

I have known Americans who would mock Android users as being "poor", because they don't want to use an iPhone.

Americans can be complete dicks to each other over the silliest things.

Scary, very scary if this is true!

Subject matter aside, this video is terrible. I understand they’re trying to mimic an Apple commercial but it’s so badly done and gives up after the initial reveal.

I’m sure it was an afternoon project for someone, but seriously, if they’re going for tongue in cheek and not amateur, they need to execute better than this.

I thought you were coming off too hard on the video creator until I realized it was the official Android channel.

Yeah if it was some one doing it in their spare time as a joke, cool. Not great writing but i wouldn’t have commented.

But for a company with a budget for a marketing campaign this is pretty poor.

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