Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1203
arrow-up1203external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square60fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish30•1 year agoGoogle Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle… Some of them even integrated with Gmail. Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won’t vanish in a year exist.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish10•1 year agoAlso Allo, I used to use that app, it was very clean, but no one I talked to heard of it
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoI feel like everyone who knew enough to know about Allo was also acutely aware that Google would probably kill it, and it would really suck to move friends to an app that’s just gonna join the graveyard with the dozen others
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoMakes sense, I just got my first android and that happen to be the app that Google was promoting heavily at the time
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoHangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoReally thought they killed it many years ago.
Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle… Some of them even integrated with Gmail.
Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won’t vanish in a year exist.
Also Allo, I used to use that app, it was very clean, but no one I talked to heard of it
I feel like everyone who knew enough to know about Allo was also acutely aware that Google would probably kill it, and it would really suck to move friends to an app that’s just gonna join the graveyard with the dozen others
Makes sense, I just got my first android and that happen to be the app that Google was promoting heavily at the time
No love for Google Wave?
Hangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
Really thought they killed it many years ago.