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Andy Meek
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The ongoing cold war between Apple and Facebook that's ratcheted up over the past few months, with each company's CEO taking veiled and not-so-veiled potshots at the other over questions around privacy and user data, not only makes for great news copy and plenty of grist for tech bloggers. It's also a hugely consequential matter for ordinary consumers, since it's their data and their privacy at stake in the way Apple architects its hardware and services -- and in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's beliefs about these issues. In yet another example of how this is all much more than a simple spat between Facebook and Apple, we noted at the end of January that Facebook is rumored to be prepping a lawsuit against the iPhone maker, believed to be focused on Apple's App Store rules that competitors often try to claim puts them at a disadvantage.
While it's become quite commonplace for the tech press to slam Facebook these days, and to ascribe a kind of guilty-until-proven-innocent framework to almost anything the social networking giant does, I'd like to take this opportunity to make what will no doubt be an unpopular declaration -- by way of pushing back on this "Apple: Good; Facebook: Bad" motif that seems to irrationally color anything written about either company. More specifically, my focus is Facebook Messenger and how it compares to Apple's own Messages app. I'm a longtime Apple user, and I have no qualms about praising things it does that haven't caught widespread fire (like Apple TV+), but I want to state, flat-out for the record, that I think Facebook Messenger actually does at least five things better than Apple's messaging product.
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Here’s why I use Facebook Messenger over iMessage almost every time originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 20:42:22 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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