by dbadmin | Jan 11, 2022 | Apple, Google, Messaging Apps, News
A Google executive has expanded on a solution to iMessage’s poor handling of Android users. Hiroshi Lockheimer says that Apple should implement RCS as a fallback option instead of SMS. Google called out Apple over the weekend for benefitting from “peer pressure” and...
by dbadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Apple, Google, Messaging Apps, News
Credit: Gary Sims / Android Authority Google has criticized Apple’s iMessage lock-in strategy against Android devices. The comments come after the WSJ reported on the iPhone and iMessage dominance among US teens. The outlet also touched on the green bubble phenomenon...
by dbadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Messaging Apps, News, Telegram
Telegram has announced several handy features in its latest update. These features include making group/channel content private and deleting messages by date/date range. Telegram has a bunch of handy features that WhatsApp lacks, such as multi-device support that...
by dbadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Messaging Apps, News, Signal
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Signal has announced that you can now make monthly donations via the app. This donation also gives subscribers a badge that’s displayed on their profile. Subscriptions will automatically stop if you haven’t used the app that...
by dbadmin | Dec 1, 2021 | Messaging Apps, News, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority An internal FBI document has revealed how much data it can legally obtain from messaging apps. It turns out that iMessage and WhatsApp were the most permissive in this regard. Signal and Telegram are two high-profile apps...
by dbadmin | Nov 19, 2021 | Google, Messaging Apps, News
In Google Messages, iMessage reactions from iPhones come in as text messages. A future update to Messages could fix this annoying incompatibility. It’s not known how this will exactly work, but we expect Emoji reactions to come in place of “Liked an image” text....
