• null_recurrent@midwest.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    They had a good blog post about why - their take was that SMS is dying and the replacement was a moving target that was hard to support for reasons I’m forgetting. I agree it hurt them tremendously though.

    • The Doctor@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I get that. That is specifically the reason they uninstalled Signal and started using FB.

      How many other folks did that?

      • null_recurrent@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        Probably a lot. I was very annoyed myself, though it made android pretty similar to the situation on iOS where you can’t replace the default messaging app anyway.

        It’s an area where I think we need a bunch of stuff:

        1. Antitrust regulation to force companies to use open standards and allow customization
        2. Folks like the Signal Foundation should get over themselves and run their project like a real open source project, where others can fork/modify/run both the server side and client side.

        There’s so much anti-competitive bullshit regarding #1 from all sides, from carriers to Apple to Google to device manufacturers.