• adsmatic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is there any better example of Google’s lack of long term vision than their chat apps?

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    1 year ago

    I’m one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I’m gonna sit this one out.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?

    Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.

    Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:

    Android SMS
    
    Bump!
    
    Cloud to Device Messaging
    
    Chat (not the same as Google Chat)
    
    Disco
    
    Dodgeball
    
    Firebase Cloud Messaging
    
    Gizmo5
    
    Gmail
    
    GTalkService
    
    Google+
    
    Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)
    
    Google+ Messenger
    
    Google.com/talk
    
    Google Allo
    
    Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)
    
    Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)
    
    Google Buzz
    
    Google Chat
    
    Google Cloud Messaging
    
    Google Docs
    
    Google Docs Editor Chat
    
    Google Duo
    
    Google Fi
    
    Google Friend Connect
    
    Google Groups
    
    Google Hangouts
    
    Google Hangouts Chat
    
    Google Hangouts Meet
    
    Google Helpouts
    
    Google Huddle
    
    Google Latitude
    
    Google Maps Messages
    
    Google Meet
    
    Google Messenger SMS
    
    Google Pay Messages
    
    Google Phone Messaging
    
    Google Photos Messages
    
    Google Schemer
    
    Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)
    
    Google Stadia Messages
    
    Google Talk
    
    Google Voice
    
    Google Voice Legacy
    
    Google Voice Third-party Apps
    
    Google Voice for G Suite
    
    Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)
    
    Google Wave
    
    GrandCentral Communications
    
    Jaiku
    
    Jibe Mobile
    
    Meebo
    
    Messages
    
    Orkut
    
    Postini
    
    Slide
    
    Sparrow
    
    YouTube Messages
    
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        1 year ago

        Apparently there was/is a messaging service somewhere hidden in the core Fi service. I just copy pasted this list from someone else tho. No idea how accurate this is.

        Believe it or not, I have not actually used all these services on the list lol

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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the employees working on it don’t have a say on it. Someone at the top decided to do it and they just have to pretend they believe on it because they have to be “team players”.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    I just realized that “Google Chat” and “Chat Messages” are to complete different things. Insane.

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    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

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      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

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    Have not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.