Friday, Apr. 20, 2018 - Google Has a Plan to Supplant SMS

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

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Google brands its replacement for SMS as "Chat," Apple can’t quit Samsung…yet, people are worried about MoviePass, digital design pioneer Susan Kare is honored, the weekend long reads suggestions, and Do Not Disturb While Driving might be having an impact. Stories from: @LangeAlexandra, @backlon, @emiliapetrarca Tweets: @waltmossberg Links:Exclusive: Chat is Google's Next Big Fix for Android's Messaging Mess (The Verge)Apple Can’t Cut Its Dependence on Rival Samsung’s Screens (WSJ)The Woman Who Gave The Macintosh a Smile (The New Yorker)Phone use while driving is still a huge problem, but this is helping (SlashGear) LongReads:Style is an Algorithm (Racked)Everything We Know About the Feud Between These Two Computer-Generated Instagram Influencers (The Cut)Iceland Takes Hard Look at Tech Boom Sparked by Its Cheap, Bountiful Power (WSJ)The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing Pioneer (NYMag)Can This Man Help Uber Recover From The Travis Kalanick Era? (Wired) Credits: Produced by @brianmcc and the @techmeme staff Music by @jpschwinghamer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Friday, April 20th, 2018.
0:10.0	Today, Google wants chat to replace SMS.
0:14.0	Apple can't quit Samsung yet.
0:18.0	People are worried about movie pass.
0:20.0	Digital design pioneer Susan Care is honored.
0:24.0	The weekend long reads suggestions and
0:27.0	Do Not Disturb while Driving might actually be having an impact.
0:31.0	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:35.0	The Verge was reporting exclusively this morning that Google is going to unveil something called
0:43.2	chat. Yes, a new text messaging initiative that Google hopes will
0:48.4	supplant SMS complete with typing indicators, picture sharing, video sharing, group texts, and more.
0:57.0	But Google is not launching yet another in its long line of messaging apps.
1:01.0	In fact, chat is not an app at all and Google won't exactly
1:06.1	own it. Instead, chat will be based on the Universal profile for Rich communication services standard,
1:13.8	and Google has cajoled nearly every major cell phone carrier
1:17.3	in the known world to support it,
1:19.4	at least 55 carriers, and at the latest count 11 OEMs.
1:24.8	The idea is to finally create a default messaging and text service for Android phones that
1:30.4	can compete with the seamless simplicity of iOS's eye message.
1:35.0	As Owen Williams pointed out in his newsletter this morning,
1:39.0	there's a long-running joke that Google only knows how to introduce new chat services. There's been
1:44.4	Hangouts, Hangouts Chat, Alo, Duo, Android messages, and lest we forget Google
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