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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)

submitted 2 years ago by nihilx7E3@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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[–] RedditExodus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah let me just convince my friends and family to stop using Signal and start using Google Chat. I'll get riiiiiight on that!

[–] StuccoTheBort@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe these will be more effective than those ads trying to convince Apple to use RCS, but it just seems sad at this point. Is there meant to be a strategy here?

[–] lord-adendaloth@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I always used to use allo and hangouts when I was a flight attendant as they would still send messages despite the airlines paywall for the internet on their wifi. no idea how it worked but was awesome little gimmic

[–] herriott101@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I always used to use Hangouts as my default chat app for friends. We had a big DnD group chat on it. But we migrated to WhatsApp when Google said they were going to kill hangouts and never looked back.

Why would I trust Google with my chats when they constantly abandon/kill off their best tools. We've now moved to Signal and I'm expecting to stay there for a long time.

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[–] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wrote about this last year because google keeps wanting to blame others for its own messaging failures.

[–] IronTwo@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

That was a good read, thanks.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I remember I actually used Allo, and Hangouts

Seriously google WTF

[–] Limeade@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think I ever even heard of Allo until the news articles started coming out about Google killing it off. I used Hangouts briefly, but I didn't know a lot of people who used it. I am surprised they are trying chat again.

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