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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I'm gonna sit this one out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Me and my ex thought Hangouts was going to be discontinued so we switched to Allo, and then back to Hangouts lmfao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And now they will never trust you to move to signal!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Too true haha, I have a few contacts on Signal and Telegram but I blew my shot and I can't blame the rest of my contacts for now wanting to switch again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I haven’t seen a company with as much as delirium as Google does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Is there any better example of Google’s lack of long term vision than their chat apps?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This one will surely stick!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Have not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] walderan 2 points 2 years ago

Sure, our eighth social media platform burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the ninth one stayed up! And that's what you're going to get lad, the strongest platform on these isles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!