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> Apple and WhatsApp

Does Meet/Teams even compete with iMessage? They seem to be in competition with FaceTime.

Regardless, Apple still shows green bubbles for WhatsApp users and still offers no way to integrate with the e2ee scheme (and therefore reach blue-bubble status) despite WhatsApp also implementing e2ee. The anti-competitive argument is sound regardless of how shit Google Meet is.

Apple doesn’t show green (or any) bubbles for WhatsApp users because WhatsApp is not interoperable with SMS or iMessage

I think Meet replaced Duo which replaced Hangouts; the latter of which was a good competitor to iMessage. I’m not even sure of the history of all their chat apps anymore because they always have multiple alive at the same time competing with each other. All I know is that they have had chat apps that were pretty good but Google could never stick to just one.

Where did Allo fit in? :)

Those seem like two unrelated issues.

Can't both be true?