dantheclammanGoogle's messaging mess continues: Chat app now wants to be the next WhatsApp
IncoherentNone of the early adopters will touch new Google products with a 10 foot pole as they have a high chance of being discontinued.
idleHave not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.
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
kaduWait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!
nmac101Now you can hear music while you type messages and make mistakes because you were paying attention to the lyrics instead of the actual message!
This made me laugh then get very sad. I miss Google Play Music so much.
Don’t give them ideas goddammit
I just realized that "Google Chat" and "Chat Messages" are to complete different things. Insane.
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.
This should just be preemptively added to https://killedbygoogle.com/
ExecAh, now it actually has been years since they had a new chat app
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 MessagesWas Google Fi actually ever a messaging app? It’s a phone service now
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
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”.
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.
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.