Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.
I agree that on a corporate or small business level even, it’s mostly big tech backing the while thing, but lots of decision makers are incredibly narrow minded and would refuse any alternatives that doesn’t fit the tech status quo, so yeah, that will take a lot longer for sure, but we can at least start small and promote alternatives when possible.
It might be just wishful thinking on my part here though and people don’t really give many shits because of random reasons, which might or might not be valid.
I’m all for it. But it’s hard, just try to get your friends over to Signal from any of the un-free alternatives is a pain, and that’s just for messages. It annoyed me immensely when they removed the SMS-functionality from it. Being able to use ONE app for both was the killer feature there. It went from hard to convince people to fscking impossible.
I agree that on a corporate or small business level even, it’s mostly big tech backing the while thing, but lots of decision makers are incredibly narrow minded and would refuse any alternatives that doesn’t fit the tech status quo, so yeah, that will take a lot longer for sure, but we can at least start small and promote alternatives when possible.
It might be just wishful thinking on my part here though and people don’t really give many shits because of random reasons, which might or might not be valid.
I’m all for it. But it’s hard, just try to get your friends over to Signal from any of the un-free alternatives is a pain, and that’s just for messages. It annoyed me immensely when they removed the SMS-functionality from it. Being able to use ONE app for both was the killer feature there. It went from hard to convince people to fscking impossible.