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kleinbl00  ·  3198 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Snapchat could become the standard messaging app.

Expect Google Voice/Hangouts to become a full-fledged, fully functional aspect of Google Fi. Google seems to be more interested in direct revenue these days, rather than B2B... and now that they're a wireless provider with their own hardware, that's the kind of magic they can do.

Apple makes iMessage work through a bunch of ad-hoc haxies on a half-dozen protocols. That's how they roll. It makes it really hard to interface with. Google, on the other hand, is going to want their ecosystem to behave for eleventy dozen vendors. They'll come up with a hard protocol.

The question is whether they'll get enough marketshare that Apple users will be annoyed by their iMessages not working outside of the Apple ecosystem. There are grumblings now but we're a ways from a tipping point.