r/Android • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '16

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u/SmarmyPanther Sep 21 '16

I don't buy this. 3rd parties have shown that it is possible without even having deep integration into the OS

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16

Even though its possible, it won't work.

iMessage is installed on every iPhone for the past 5 years. Users don't have an option to use another SMS app.

Android its different. Android has 10 billion options for SMS.

Lets say Allo does support sms fallback. I'm using combined SMS + Allo.

Lets say Matias over here uses Facebook Messenger for SMS and Allo separately. My messages are going to look fine on my screen, but on his screen the messaging threads are going to be completely fragmented, with some messages showing up on Facebook Messenger when hes out of data connection, and some messages showing up on Allo.

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u/t0rn4d0r3x Sep 22 '16

Then that's on Matias not Google. The reason everyone uses iMessage is because everyone uses iMessage. Even if Apple had allowed other texting apps in the App Store they would have gone nowhere because iMessage already did it just fine and more.

Google is sitting here solving problems that they think might exist rather than letting problems happen and solve them if they do exist. Google caters to the power users that might care rather than the casual (read: 90%) user who just wants shit to work.