Not just powering that phone, but other connected devices in your house. However, Meta argues it should be exempt because Messenger is a part of Facebook, not a standalone messaging platform, according to The Verge. The smart home power features look awesome, and it's a really clever way to rethink what the "power" button does on your phone. If Meta falls under the EU’s strict new antitrust rules, they might have to make Messenger work with other messaging services. I'm a 'smart home power user' so I'll use that a lot. It doesn't play it, but it's annoying to have it there.īreaking your smart home stuff out of Google Home / Smart area into OS-wide controls is good too. Like, when I get into my car I frequently have my car display whatever I was last watching on YOuTube in the media controls in my dashboard. and often times if my phone connects to a neew bluetooth device, it'll start that up again. That's a constant annoyance of mine, like I'll watch a YouTube video and I'll be done with it, close the app, and then the youtube media notification controls will still be in that control area and I either cant' swipe that away until I close YOuTube again, or I just have to ignore it. The notifications messaging stuff sounds like a great improvement. Facebooks head of Messenger, told The Information. There may be messaging fragmentation on the iPhone, but at least the default experience when you're texting other iPhone users is pretty good. As WhatsApp officially joins the Facebook fold, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum has joined Facebooks. Or, if you're lucky, it's RCS - but even then your encryption options are substandard. Facebook is back online after a massive outage that also took down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus ‘Networking issues’ took the sites down just before noon ET Richard Lawler Alex. That's a problem for both Android and iOS users, but it feels more acute on Android because the default option is a bad, broken experience: SMS. In some parts of the world, that statement doesn't obtain because everybody uses WhatsApp, but at least here in the US, messaging is fragmented across iMessage, SMS/RCS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Telegram, and any number of other apps I could list here. Meta’s broadcast channels, previously available for Instagram and WhatsApp, will be coming to Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks, according to a Meta blog post. RCS aside, the problem is that there are too many texting apps and you can't really convince all your friends and loved ones to just choose one. Now, it's going for something more "open" by trying to get all carriers worldwide (and maybe Apple) to upgrade from SMS to RCS in a consistent and universally compatible way - and also make it possible to layer strong encryption on top of it. The difference between Google's messaging mess and the overall mess on smartphones is simply that Google blew several opportunities to win at mobile messaging.
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