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  • Listen, I’m happy for everything that makes communicating easier but to paint Google and Android as some champions of messaging is just straight up crazy.

    I was an android user since the beginning of modern smart phones (and before that I used Windows Mobile 6.5 😵‍💫) and messaging has been an absolute shit-show on android for almost the entire time. Google finally had a good solution with Hangouts (circa 2014) but they killed it and spawned so many messaging clones that I lost count.

    The reason why we have such fragmentation and so many different apps we have to juggle to communicate on android is because of the clear lack of vision and leadership in that area in Google.

    Even RCS is freaking fragmented as well. Take for example E2E encryption, that doesn’t work unless you go through google’s servers which you can’t really guarantee so you’re getting a different “RCS” UX depending on who you’re texting and what servers are being used on the backend.

    After I switched to iPhone from Android it was like a slap in the face on how much better just communicating to people was on iPhone. Google isn’t the fucking hero here.





  • The main problem with BYD cars is that they are heavily subsidizing by the Chinese government.

    If you remove those subsidies then those cars aren’t going to be very competitive. But the problem would be that by the time the Chinese government stopped subsidies, there wouldn’t be any competition left.

    Our best ways to counteract this would either be through heavy tariffs or by subsidizing our own companies in the west.

    MAGA wants to do the tariffs route which is basically a bandaid solution that would prevent the Chinese companies from owning the US market but it wouldn’t do anything outside of that. Plus it doesn’t solve is being competitive, it’s just covering its ears and “lalala”’ing the issue for later generations to deal with it. Which honestly, that tracks for basically their whole platform.

    If you do the subsidies route though, we’d have to make sure we’re not just constantly lining Musk’s pockets but Tesla is the company has the biggest head start. And Musk is a PoS but the devil’s credit is that our EV market wouldn’t exist without Tesla.

    IMO, we need to diversify our EV makers and help provide the capital to bootstrap it. And while that’s happening we need to not let cheap Chinese cars flood the market to undercut any chance we have. So basically we need a combination of both solutions.