It can be difficult to text between the two phones. Photos and videos get smaller, messages from people on the other side of the world show up as a green chat bubble on the phone, and there are also emoji reactions. When an iPhone user hits the thumbs up or heart reaction, that doesn't translate to the phone's native language, and shows up as an awkward text description on the phone's native language screen.
The ever-growing challenge of buy-in from Apple has made fixing some of that difficult. This week, it was announced that updates coming to Messages will allow users to respond to text messages on their phones with a variety of facial expressions. The ability to thread responses to individual messages is one of the updates. Pressure is being put on Apple to meet it halfway as a result of the concerted effort by Google.
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The technical point of contention has been Rich Communications Services, a messaging standard that has been pushing its partners to adopt over the last year. Attachments and media are handled by RCS, which is better than the standard text messages. It's true that Apple has its own messaging standard for its devices, and then defaults to texting when it's time for a message to be sent. Apple didn't want to switch to the new system. Messages are lost in translation between the platforms.
Last month, Google made a public plea for Apple to change its standards so that their messages would play better on their phones. After Apple CEO Tim Cook dismissed the idea, the stalemate continued. The latest update is slightly better for those considering the switch.
There are some other gadgets news here.
You can come along and ride on a wonderful advertising voyage.
People who have ever been in a New York City taxi cab have seen a lot of commercials on a loop. It's clear that rideshare services want to fill your ride with ads and take advantage of the quiet passenger time.
When it added taxi-style ad billboards to the top of cars back in 2020, it was the first time that it had tinkered with advertising. In a press release this week, the company said it would serve ads during nearly every part of an interaction. Audio ads can be heard while waiting for a ride and during the trip. In addition, the company is going to put more video ads on tablets in cars, and send sponsored emails.
It isn't about the destination, it's about how much you spend on the journey.
Sharing is good, unless you're a streaming service.
All those extra users will soon be charged for swindling off one person's account. This week, it was announced that people will no longer be able to share their logins with others. Each extra account will cost $4 a head, which is not considered in the same home. In countries outside of the US, the company has been testing the new rules. It looks like it will be platform wide. The new policy will take effect in the year 2023.
Earlier this week, it was announced that you will be able to spin off a sub account into your own account at the same time. The full monthly fee will keep your watch history intact.
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