Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down111
arrow-up1187arrow-down1external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squareArgentRaven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·1 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-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoAlso Allo, I used to use that app, it was very clean, but no one I talked to heard of it
minus-squareTrashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 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-squareSuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 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-squareArgentRaven@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI forgot about that one! That was their original attempt, wasn’t it?
minus-squarestown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·1 year agoHangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 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?
I forgot about that one! That was their original attempt, wasn’t it?
Hangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.
Really thought they killed it many years ago.