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
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”.
Wait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!
Stop giving them ideas goddammit
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/06/youtube-music-comments-now-playing/
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.
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.
Use encrypted messaging instead.
Have not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.
This one will surely stick!
I haven’t seen a company with as much as delirium as Google does.
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’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.
Ah, now it actually has been years since they had a new chat app
