"Google is building a new mobile-messaging service that taps its artificial intelligence know-how and so-called chatbot technology to try to catch up with rivals..."
Or they could, you know, fix notifications in Android's Hangouts app.
Or, you know, bring back off the record conversations. The ability to delete individual messages/pictures out of conversations. Encrypt conversations by default, and stop requiring chrome for the desktop apps to work.
It's hilarious because everyone in this sub-thread is correct. Its why I moved to an iPhone 6 and use iMessages and Facetime for all of my messaging/communications needs.
No fan boy, just someone who likes things to work when I need it. Its like Google doesn't care at all that the experience sucks.
The biggest problem of that is that it only works if you can assume everyone in your contact list uses iOS. How do you deal with that problem? (I'm just curious...)
This -- I recently switched to Android thinking "iPhones are luxury phones. Surely a bunch of my friends use Android." Was immediately known as "Green Bubbles" guys for a few weeks by family and friends.
But even the green bubble solution is "perfect". One app. One experience. I want to message this person, through the internet for free if possible and if not - just send it as a text. I don't want 4 apps on my phone to do the same thing, and that's why I don't see the point in being an also-ran
Hah, I didn't even get "green bubbles" reference until I came back here just now :-) (I'm not an iOS user.)
Some of the downside about text is that it often shows unpredictable behavior, especially when it involves going over carrier's gateway to other networks, or involving some non-ordinary systems like Google Voice. Though, it seems to be improving now, but I used to see anything from garbled messages to complete silence, and it often exhibited different behavior between combinations of different sender and receiver. (For instance A, and B in same network might have worked OK, but A to some user in another network being able to receive, or sometimes being able to receive one way, but corrupts for the other way around, etc.)
Google Voice until recently (maybe a year ago?) or so, couldn't do any group MMS at all, and would simply get ignored. One blamed would be one who deviates from standards, but my most pet peeve of SMS/MMS is that it offers very little to no error indications when something goes wrong.
I actually manage a volunteer team of 30 or so with varying types of devices, where one to many communication is highly needed, and I find messaging solution very complicated problem to solve. (And yes, I'm likely resort to having like 2 to 3 apps to get it done...)
Oh yes, you "green bubble" people. I pretty much only talk to them on FB and if we have to talk in a group I'll use a FB group. I'm no fan of facebook but messenger blows SMS out of the water and at least brings everyone up to the same level. Just 1 sms-only user in an iMessage group and you are back to the dark ages it feels like... No offense to android users it's just a PITA to have to revert to SMS when 90% of the people in the group have iOS/iMessage.
> Is there currently human technology that does anything similar to this?
Steganography. Not "background", in the sense that images are generally considered useful, but it is hiding information in a place that a casual onlooker would not think to look.
> Encryption is applied on the data layers not to hide that something is being transmitted, but what is being transmitted.
That's exactly why this encryption would be strong. Initially, no one thinks to look for signals that don't look like signals.
1. "The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot" or "A skilled or knowledgeable person often fails to use their skills for the benefit of their family and people close to them."[0]
2. Minimalism is strongly represented in tech design right now, and could be considered boring.
It's more of the first point i guess. But being a web developer, your website gives the first impression, so i believe that it's important to take care of it
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Blockchain! But seriously, I'd do a rewritable optical media, a flash drive, and a spinning drive. I'd do checksums on existing data any time you write to it to ensure nothing has been lost. I'd also do some sort of versioning at each write and actually keep a full copy of the data before the write. That last part could get unwieldy if your data grows over a lot time.
And I would double each storage media and keep one set off site.
This is all a little much for anything less than a "I NEVER can lose this data" requirement.
Nice and mellow, but not boring.