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[–] [email protected] 146 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Give him his due, he managed to convince one single country that the colour of a text message matters 😂

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

Obligatory fuck iMessage lock-in.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

He’s the guy that *invented” rounded corners

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real, if google didn’t completely screw up messaging every single year it wouldn’t be as big of a deal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody uses SMS anymore, it's 2023

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hangouts was already the iMessage competitor. Video, voice, high res photos and videos, etc with SMS fallback. But as usual google kills every good product they create.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gmail? Photos? Drive?

Hangouts didn't have the next work effect, unlike Whatsapp