Samsung and Google are teaming up to escalate their war on the iPhone with the Galaxy S20
Samsung's Galaxy S20 comes with Google's video-chat service, Duo, integrated directly into its phone app. That may not sound like a big deal, but it gives Samsung's newest phones a feature its previous Galaxy devices have lacked: a true alternative to Apple's FaceTime.
The Duo integration may not sound like one of the Galaxy S20's most exciting features, especially alongside the Ultra version's flashy 108-megapixel camera. But if Samsung wants to win over Apple devotees, it needs to make sure it at the very least has every feature Apple offers. Adding a viable alternative to FaceTime is one way it can further that effort.
Google may not care all that much about dominating the smartphone market. After all, most of the company's revenue comes from advertising, not hardware sales. But it probably does want to establish more continuity among Android devices and kill the ongoing perception that the Android ecosystem is fragmented, a notion that has long been viewed as one of Android's disadvantages compared to the iPhone.
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