This assumes a lot about a pretty mundane app. It seems more like Google is letting Slide do its own thing within the company. It was only acquired half a year ago, I'd be shocked if this is a precursor to a feature baked into Android.
Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movie missing the last ten pages.
Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?
Would you, really? I think that Google has to do something to get into the ring on this one. Facebook bought Beluga. Google's just gonna stand by and do nothing?
You're talking about a category of application which very few people are even using at the moment. Both Facebook and Google buy a lot of companies.
They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.
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This assumes a lot about a pretty mundane app. It seems more like Google is letting Slide do its own thing within the company. It was only acquired half a year ago, I'd be shocked if this is a precursor to a feature baked into Android.
Yes, exactly. I was mentally enumerating all the meanings of the Trojan Horse allegory and wondering why this has anything to do with iOS in particular. Yet, I cat't see what the point of the OP is. It reads like the script of a horror movie missing the last ten pages.
Google pricked the group messaging territory with a little incomplete flag. Anything else I'm missing?
Would you, really? I think that Google has to do something to get into the ring on this one. Facebook bought Beluga. Google's just gonna stand by and do nothing?
You're talking about a category of application which very few people are even using at the moment. Both Facebook and Google buy a lot of companies.
They're not "doing nothing", they're letting a small team try to develop something, which seems a perfectly appropriate reaction. How often has Google jumped into a totally new category with any real conviction? They half-heartedly launched Buzz long after Twitter was a hit, they killed Wave, etc.