Soon, Android devices and Chromebooks will further blur the line between desktop and mobile. You can silence your phone right from the shelf of your Chromebook and even use the locate phone feature to ring your device if you’ve misplaced it.

Phone Hub allows you to access your device’s notifications, reply to messages, view recent Chrome tabs, and more. With the evolution of the in-built Chrome OS Phone Hub, the symbiotic relationship between Chromebook and Android phones has become near-seamless and it just keeps getting better. Considering how Apple is taking user privacy to new heights, why would the company suffer a sudden shift in character and jump onto a Google platform?Īpple has no desire to do anything that opens up its ecosystem, even a little, especially when it's a cash cow service like iMessage that keeps users within its walled garden.It goes without saying that Google’s Chrome operating system lends itself much more to those of us who use Android smartphones. The RCS version Google is pushing would run through Google's Jibe servers. However, Apple is unlikely to adopt the RCS protocol into iMessage due to one main reason besides its iPhone sales.

Google's #GetTheMessage campaign was designed to convince Apple to support RCS messaging. Moving iMessage to Android will hurt us more than help us.Ī possible compromise would be for Apple to build RCS compatibility into iMessage (RCS is a universal text messaging standard developed by the GSMA for all devices, and it would allow Apple and Android phones to message effectively). The #1 most difficult to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage.

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