![]() ![]() "Everywhere" was released in the United Kingdom on 21 March 1988 and reached number four. "Everywhere" was released as the fourth single from Tango in the Night on 28 November 1987 in the United States, where it reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, remaining there for three weeks. McVie herself also talked about the song's intro: "He slowed the tape down, really slowly, and played the parts slowly, and then, when it came to the right speed, it sounded bloody amazing". ![]() In the 2019 documentary, Fleetwood Mac's Songbird - Christine McVie, Richard Dashut, the co-producer of Tango in the Night briefly talked about the intro: "That's a half-speed acoustic guitar and electric combined". It was written by Christine McVie, who also performs lead vocals on the song. Still, it could be worse: at least we don’t all own BBC Micros."Everywhere" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their fourteenth studio album Tango in the Night (1987). So we all end up choosing platforms, building inevitable silos, and leaving some people out. I want Messages to be ubiquitous, but Apple’s priority is to make iPhone ubiquitous. My kid still won’t be able to iMessage her aunt. However, Apple also confirmed RCS will work alongside iMessage – it won’t replace it. Improvements will include typing indicators, read receipts, high-res media sharing, and more. Still, Apple’s support for this open standard will benefit iPhone and Android folks messaging each other. Next, there was a surprise reveal about upcoming RCS ( Rich Communications Service) support in iOS – not entirely coincidentally squeaking in before the deadline for appealing against ‘gatekeeper status’ in the EU’s Digital Markets Act. Despite claiming it’s trying to “level the playing field”, its app will be available for precisely one phone: its own. And Nothing’s hardly championing openness either. This uses tech by Sunbird, a company that’s the opposite of open regarding how it intends to achieve such feats. (Spoiler: change isn’t coming.) First up, Nothing said it’s bringing iMessage to Android via a Nothing Chats app. ![]() Two stories this week suggested change is coming. Play And then Tim sends an iMessage to his legal team that’s simply an anvil emoji. Which, if you’re doing the maths, means more work for Apple (bringing Messages to Android) and dramatically lower income (since mucho iPhones = big profits). If it was suddenly everywhere, Apple worries people would give their kids Android phones. The iMessages service is a major factor in platform loyalty. However, there’s more chance Apple will resurrect Pippin. These cases are very different, but both suggest a fix Apple could make: Messages for Android. Except one aunt, because she has an Android phone. Most of her family in Iceland has access to Apple devices, letting her easily keep in touch with loved ones a thousand miles away. But the lack of ‘iMessages everywhere’ can still be problematic. Over here in relatively civilised Europe, everyone’s on WhatsApp and baffled about the iMessage bubbles. Presumably, US high schools are filled with children wearing Steve Jobs masks, chanting “ONE OF iUS! ONE OF iUS!” And Android use denotes someone who is ‘other’. Green bubbles denote Android use, you see. ![]() But an equivalent today is as bad, with reports that green bubbles on phones lead to bullying and ostracisation in the USA, because the iPhone is so prevalent among teens. Like much of the 1980s, those attitudes were ridiculous. Play That arrow shows where Apple should throw its no-Android iMessages policy. ![]()
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