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Much better headline than:

"Nano commits to selling the Essentials lineup, without any changes, for the next 20 years"

The alert tone is quite jarring. I wonder how many panic attacks, car accidents and heart attacks occur when the tone sounds?

I've always been alone when they've come, but I couldn't imagine being in a crowded room.

A huge aspect of Web Search is control over indexing. Website owners can decide which pages get indexed, which pages should be ignored, get insights into search activity around their target market, get analytics for their own site, etc. Google covers all of these areas well. I just can't see Apple investing into providing the same types of tools.

You're not changing a market when the market is already mature and well-served.

Do I wish there was an opportunity for Apple to compete with Google? Absolutely! I just can't see it happening.

Not surprised. Today's streaming services are very cheap for the amount of quality content that's available. I used to be solely Netflix, but tried out Crave and Prime Video and was amazed at all the great content I had been missing out on!

I'm just annoyed by how TV+ displays previews of other shows at the beginning of its own shows, same as Prime Video. Sure, it is definitely effective at surfacing content that may not have otherwise been discovered, but I choose those services specifically for the content that I choose, not to have content pushed onto me.

If Apple were to implement RCS in Messages today as an option to message Android users, it removes the simplicity of using Apple Messages and introduces Google's fragmented issues to the platform.

That's not entirely true. Presently, Messages attempts to detect if the receiver's phone number is registered with iCloud. if so, it attempts to send the message as an iMessage. This might still fail if the recipient has no signal or has turned off data. In that case, it "falls back" to sending as an SMS message.

RCS requires data, and many people turn off data when they don't need it, so aren't they receiving fallback SMS messages even from other Android users? How does Android handle that scenario?

It's clear now that Apple is holding on as long as possible to show the elegant advantages of iMessage, so it's clearly a money play, but RCS is still a messy protocol that doesn't have as broad support as SMS does.

Apple would need to:
1) Test if the recipient can receive an iMessage.
2) Fallback to RCS and test if the recipient can receive this. How can they tell?