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  • I’m kinda surprised another company hasn’t made something to legit compete with iMessage yet

    WhatsApp, FB Messager, Telegram? RCS is also a legitimate competitor.

    The blocker isn’t the tech, it’s Apple’s control of the ecosystem and iMessage’s integration to SMS on iOS / macOS. I’d imagine if Apple provides an option for user to “switch default SMS app” to a 3rd party one, there’d be no reason why any one of the above wouldn’t see a huge uplift.

    By the way, the iMessage domination thing only really applies to North America. Rest of the world lives and breathes WhatsApp, WeChat, FB Messager etc.





  • As a distinction AOSP vs Android is as important as Chromium vs Chrome. It is much more than semantics, it is literally the difference between an open-source project vs not.

    Fact is if you present the de-Googled AOSP to regular users, they’d think it’s a broken experience without all the Google apps and services that people come to expect - Maps, Mail, Calendar etc. Drivers and device specifics firmware are also a big part of the foundational Android user experience. So to call Android = AOSP = open source is a mass simplification and definitely hand-waving away the reality of how each system operates and the whole point of open source projects.