Apple beefs up smartphone services in ‘silent war’ against Google (ft.com) 11 points by doener 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] tw98521358 3y ago ↗ Apple is overtaking google because android OS is getting too insecure and pro advertising/tracking. Also it turns out that blue messages in chat are a killer feature that’s hard to fight [–] eternityforest 3y ago ↗ I wonder if they'll find some legal stuff to fight to blue messages.When teens are getting judgement and peer pressure for not having an expensive locked down phone, it's not exactly great.Either that or someone might make a 3rd party chat app with a true killer feature.I'm not too worried yet, but I'd hate to see Android become the minority, or turn into a clone of iOS.
[–] eternityforest 3y ago ↗ I wonder if they'll find some legal stuff to fight to blue messages.When teens are getting judgement and peer pressure for not having an expensive locked down phone, it's not exactly great.Either that or someone might make a 3rd party chat app with a true killer feature.I'm not too worried yet, but I'd hate to see Android become the minority, or turn into a clone of iOS.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 13.6 ms ] threadWhen teens are getting judgement and peer pressure for not having an expensive locked down phone, it's not exactly great.
Either that or someone might make a 3rd party chat app with a true killer feature.
I'm not too worried yet, but I'd hate to see Android become the minority, or turn into a clone of iOS.