It's not.
It is (Vodafone).
It is.
They did not, they just went all-in with their own special flavor of it.
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Google Claims Apple Follows Its Lead in Smartphone Innovation: 'We Take It As a Compliment'
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It is called end-to-end encryption (E2EE), and Signal is not the only one with E2EE. WhatsApp technically uses E2EE with the Signal Protocol, but everyone knows it still leaks.
No?
The Pixel 6 is demolishing Google's sales records
For all the hate (and love) it's apparently selling well
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The Pixel 6 sold more than the Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 combined
This year at Google I/O, we saw our first look at the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro, which took a...
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On the eve of Pixel 7, Google has reportedly sold just shy of 30 million phones since 2016
According to new data, Google is just shy of 30 million Pixel smartphones sales to date, over the past six years' worth of devices.
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Apple rarely-to-never mentions Google/Samsung yet the latter mention Apple all the time.
Sad. Just sad. I don't know what MBA thought this was a strategy but damn.
Sad. Just sad. I don't know what MBA thought this was a strategy but damn.
There are two sides to that coin.
Quite often I'd rather have the ability to do something that isn't too polished, (MMS), than not at all.
Late to the game can sometimes be as bad as not turning up at all.
It’s going to take significant advancements in material science, or some alternate shift away from smartphones altogether to be as game-changing as when the original iPhone was announced. I think it’s possible that AR based glasses could be the thing that takes us to the next level, but there will be pushback on suggesting you need to wear glasses, while also carrying your phone and likely having to wear some sort of headset as well.
iMessage uses encryption protocols/standards your Government doesn't like as they can't break it easily.
Fixed for you. It's hit or miss for Apple, and that goes for other companies as well. Then again, 'best' is subjective.. I can argue Apple wasn't the best at things you listed above. But Apple was really good at marketing.
They are correct when it comes to cameras. Back then they set the standard and created the whole night mode to what it is today
You know, at this point, it is an interesting question. The "understood" reason is that Apple thinks iMessage draws and keeps users on iPhone, but I don't think that is really valid for the most part (people come to iPhone and stay here for other reasons most of the time).
What is valid though is Google's flavor of RCS (every provider had their own incompatible version of RCS for many, many years as its very old) is not universal and their E2E encryption is not part of their RCS standard but something their app layers on top - the point here, can you see this would probably be a PITA to implement and have it work all the time in iMessage for Apple?
And if people weren't getting it to work at the moment it would just be a headache for Apple to have to deal with with a bunch of possible causes for whatever the problem might be. On top of the fact this all happened because Google execs dropped their most popular messaging app (Hangouts - which mixed SMS with their chat, like iMessage does) out of Android back in the mid 2010's - because their execs don't hold the company to strategic long term paths beyond search / sales $$$ and promotions there are based on getting new products up and running (not keeping them or continuing them).
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Oh wait, I guess it a Like-Disagree. I didn't even know that was there.
Isn’t SMH short for so much HATE? A little ironic, right? Hate is toxic.
Totally agree.
Mentioning your competition smells a bit of desperatation. If a company truly believes in their offering, they’ll speak only of their offering. Anything different sows subconscious seeds of doubt. Fracturing the foundation. Eventually leading to more serious issues.
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I am glad you also know what it is called, I post in layman here. This is something everyone needs to know about in whatever verbiage is necessary to get it disseminated. I’ll make sure to leave an untranslated version for people like you.😏
Google's point is to throw out red herrings like this so that people ignore the truth that their phone is not the product. YOU are the product. Every interaction you have with their devices will be tracked, analyzed, stored (indefinitely) and commoditized to maximize Google's profit. They could make Google handsets hover weightlessly in the air in front of me and it still would pale in comparison to the value proposition of an iPhone.
I don't think it'd take close to a week of iPhone sales to beat Pixel's all time sales. Maybe a few days, at most.
I get it, I am also very flattered that apple went with my idea and made a phone.
It’s increasingly more common for Android messaging. Just like WhatsApp is increasingly more common for WhatsApp messaging.
Anyway, Google has an app for iOS, but it doesn’t support RCS. Bound to be another Boongoogle!Mentioning competitors by name — even in an attempt to dress them down — is always free advertising. I'd love it if I were Apple.
lol this back and forth is all but useless at this point......smartphone adoption/saturation has reached something of a peak and pretty much everyone who has one is well ensconced into either camp (Google or Android). People do switch yes, but the overall numbers are inconsequential and if one has already been a user of one or the other for a while, the chances of them switching platforms is also inconsequential.