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Is there any better example of Google’s lack of long term vision than their chat apps?
This one will surely stick!
Ah, now it actually has been years since they had a new chat app
I’m bored that’s like the thousand time Google does something, undo it and make it again. Wake me up when for once they make a successful product.
Have not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.
I’m one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I’m gonna sit this one out.
Me and my ex thought Hangouts was going to be discontinued so we switched to Allo, and then back to Hangouts lmfao
Ouch, I’m so sorry. I had already been bitten by the Google graveyard then so I actively avoided allo.
Honestly, till date, the most amazing messaging app I have used. RIP!
And now they will never trust you to move to signal!
Too true haha, I have a few contacts on Signal and Telegram but I blew my shot and I can’t blame the rest of my contacts for now wanting to switch again.
That had to be rough.
This is also me. After Allo’s demise, I moved everyone to WhatsApp. Aside from being a Mera product now, it was a good choice.
I was trying to remember this sweet app that nobody used a decade ago
I just realized that “Google Chat” and “Chat Messages” are to complete different things. Insane.
Seems they took a page out of Microsoft’s book on naming products.
Any other (competent) company would kill for the amount of users that Google has with their products like Android or Gmail. There needs to be a change at the top.
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Ten times bitten, eleventh time shy
I’m still salty about Google Inbox. Though I don’t use Google mail anymore.
Google Reader is where the true pain is.
It blows my mind that Google still can’t get an iMessage equivalent to stick… I just don’t get why they wouldn’t care about messaging/communication experience on phones, seems like they’ve been scrambling for over 10 years to get this right, over multiple apps.
A lot of people only use an iPhone because of iMessage, which is a lot more fun to use, and is exclusive to the ecosystem
I’ve always used a 3rd party app on my Android phones and it’s so much better than any of the texting programs they have had come installed on the device. There are so many issues. You could get a different program depending on what mfg your phone is from, which could be great or utterly suck. Hangouts used to be a thing but as far as I know texts s weren’t integrated into it so it was a secondary or additional app. Of course I don’t know what exactly iMessages even is but based on your comment, it’s better than that lol
I haven’t seen a company with as much as delirium as Google does.
I used Chat the first time before they killed it, and then I switched to Hangouts which allowed SMS and chat which was very nice, and then I ignored Allo and Duo when they came out, and then Hangouts died and I went back to Messages and just stuck with RCS, and now what, Google wants me to go back to Chat?
Didn’t Hangouts work? Couldn’t we have just continued to improve on Hangouts? Oh, wait, that would require some actual commitment to this nightmare of an ecosystem.
Like those reviving of old car brands lol
Use encrypted messaging instead.
This should just be preemptively added to https://killedbygoogle.com/
Given up on using Google messaging apps once hangouts was killed and allo rolled out. RCS isn’t even as open as they say it is. No third party apps. Since moving back to the us trying to get everyone to switch to matrix (via beeper) or just using the bridges to talk to people on their default which usually is imessage unfortunately.
