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Hangouts could have been what WA is these days.
@motopazzo @pelespirit Google controls Android.
If that company had its act together, Hangouts would now basically be WhatsApp plus Slack combined.
Except deeply integrated into all of Google's Apps.
The silver lining for consumers is we dodged a duopoly on messaging apps (Hangouts plus iMessage) because Google was too incompetent to pull it off.
Msn Messenger could have been that, if they bothered to make even a Java app for that instead of having that stupid Java app that used an SMS bridge that was super expensive to the end user