Recent content by ED the new guy

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    Google Messages' latest experiment makes RCS chats stand out in the home screen

    "As it stands, RCS chats are already far ahead of traditional SMS in terms of features." Featuritis strikes again. The same reason phone reviewers blather on about the most inane of things and phone manufacturers add completely useless cameras to phones that take terrible pictures (so they can...
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    Google Messages brings E2EE to group chats, makes RCS the default

    There is no advantage to end users. Only Google and Microsoft stand to gain from RCS since they're the ones who failed to build successful instant messaging platforms on the internet that people actually want to use. It's a solution not for real people problems but for corporation problems...
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    Google Messages brings E2EE to group chats, makes RCS the default

    Having e2e encryption is pointless if noone receives your messages. I've only ever had problems with Google's Messages app and RCS. It requires data and it has a really unreliable SMS/MMS fallback mechanism if the message fails to send. Occasionally I'll turn it on to see if the problems have...
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    Stop Google Play Store from deleting an app that I have installed on an Android phone

    Thank you for your helpful reply. Facepalm. I'd made it a protected app. And promptly forgotten about it because I didn't put it in my protected apps folder on the launcher. Something weird going on with Play Store though. When I search for Lego Ninjago Wu Cru nothing turns up. When I search...
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    Stop Google Play Store from deleting an app that I have installed on an Android phone

    Help. My children's favorite app (Lego Ninjago Movie app) has been removed from the Google Play Store, and, it appears that the Google Play Store has seen fit to remove it from one of my devices without my permission. I still have one device that has the app installed that has not yet connected...