What? People are already learning what Nearby Share is. Why change the fucking branding?
The point exactly. Google does not do successful branding, it’s against some internal mandate apparently.
Makes a new messaging app every few years
Complains when iMessage has a monopoly
The complaints are valid, but Google had more than enough power to compete
So they can add a messaging service and then kill it.
Meh, it was as confusing as Android Nearby Share being incompatible with Windows Nearby Share.
Seriously what’s that about?
Two companies using a somewhat generic name for their own implementation of a system that is not interoperable.
Weren’t they planning on making it interoperable?
I don’t think so.
It just seems like FTC or something should be objecting to whichever such product came out second.
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Remember when you could just tap your phone on someone else’s?
That never worked right for me. Every phone had its NFC chip at a different location on the back, so you always had to figure out where the hell you had to tap the phones.
People know where their chip is now though because of contactless
