• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t RCS an example of Google doing a Microsoft style Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? It was open until Google started fucking with it.

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      4 months ago

      I swear Google promised to open up their implementation of RCS to third-party app developers like 5 years ago and it still hasn’t happened.

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        4 months ago

        Google tells lots of lies. They’re no longer a trustworthy company. Actually, they’re explicitly an untrustworthy company.

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          That whole “don’t be evil” mantra is long dead now.

          Be evil if it makes money.