Why all is the angst being directed at Apple and Google here? The 2 have both shown they work together on open standards that give both the benefit of that standard. Both have talked up a standard to universal better messaging (with fallback) and Seamless video calling and IP Voice calling with any ID.
Clearly, the reason this is still a thing, is the carriers do not want to be religated to being a dumb pipe. They lack the creativity to be being anything else.
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The 2 have both shown they work together on open standards that give both the benefit of that standard. Both have talked up a standard to universal better messaging (with fallback) and Seamless video calling and IP Voice calling with any ID.
Clearly, the reason this is still a thing, is the carriers do not want to be religated to being a dumb pipe. They lack the creativity to be being anything else.