Google, which is in the middle of a campaign to get Apple to support the RCS platform, used the song to help its cause.
In the tweet, Google wrote, “The Android team thinks Drake’s new song “Texts Go Green” is a real banger. It refers to the phenomenon when an iPhone user gets blocked. Or tries to text someone who doesn’t have an iPhone. Either way, it’s pretty rough. If only some super-talented engineering team at Apple would fix this. Because this is a problem only Apple can fix. They just have to adopt RCS, actually. It would make texting more secure too. Just sayin’. Great track tho.”
As an Android user, Google can’t even standardise on a message app so it’s a bit rich to expect Apple to follow Google’s lead on this.
Years ago that may have been true, but Messages combined with RCS support (and other carriers with their own apps supporting that should you not buy a Pixel) has been pretty uniform. If Apple would get on board then it would be a non issue by now.
Messages doesn’t even consistently fail-over to SMS if the client is unreachable through the internet. The feature exists, but it rarely works.
Messages is bad software, and has been for quite some time. Google pointing to that embarrassing trash as their heroic standard for messaging is ridiculous.
They have nobody to blame but themselves for green bubbles. I’m a die-hard Android user but their reputation on this front is well-earned.
I mirror what Pxtl says, Messages frequently breaks where I can be messaging someone and maybe an hour or so later it tells me the recipient is “offline” and the message wasn’t delivered! No fail over, just fails to send and only notifies me a random amount of time later.
woooooww anyway
Yeah, they should just adopt so called “standard” protocol implemented in 1 app available from 1 app repository for 1 operating system, with no open server implementation available, that even being internet based is totally tied to phone carrier and supports just bare minimum of features expected in modern chat app.
Jabber has been an available standard for over 20 years. Google jumped onto it and then jumped off in their infamous cycle of ADHD on the subject of instant messaging. They have nobody to blame but themselves for the “green speech bubbles” problem – they could have a lot more credibility here.
And yet Google had not yet added RCS support to Google Fi “messages for web” (the service to access voice and sms without connecting to a phone) after several years.
Some people are just pathetic and think that a green bubble means you’re are an inferior human being.
I mean, that’s the whole premise of Apple in the USA. This green vs blue bubble issue is not predominant in other countries.
Instead WhatsApp is a plague, at least in Europe. I really hope Googles modern SMS successor takes off.
Just use Telegram
Why would telegram be the solution? Centralized, not particularly private, not open to other standards.
Just like RCS. But at least it works everywhere.
I wonder home much Google paid for that mention.
Drake likes to have sex with children so… maybe care about more important shit.
you mean r.kelly?
never heard that about drake…
So many paths in life that resulted in you not posting this, yet here we are.
*lmao y’all took this way too seriously, sheesh
Even if I think it’s silly, it’s relevant to the community and people will be talking about it?
Nah bro. Lemmy does not have enough content as it is.
In the song, Drake raps about not answering someone’s phone call and says, “She call my number, leave her hangin’, she got dry cleaned. She got an Android, her messages is lime green.”
There ya go. Content.
Either go and put content out there yourself or stop bitching about people who are posting. Doing nothing and complaining just makes you the biggest ass
Dang even posting content pissed you off.
Sorry I upset upset you by simply sharing more of what you asked for.
I think Google’s reaction and reference to RCS are pretty noteworthy.
That’s true, didn’t he make that song about cellphones being hotlines?
Totally relevant to Android!
