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Why didn't they just update hangouts? I actually use hangouts for video calls with relative frequency, and I wish it was better adapted to changes in network speed like they say Duo is. I think it would be better if "Duo" was just integrated into hangouts as an update. I like hangouts because it allows me to use one app for voice, text and video.
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At least it doesn't only run on Apple devices, like the complete joke that is FaceTime.
When it comes to shitty interoperability, Google takes the cake. No one ever claimed FaceTime works on your android. They wanted to open source it and got fucked on patents. Try using gmail to send a regular iCalendar format invite to an event. If they just happen to have used that email for a google account, fuck you it ends up in the Google calendar account they likely didn't know they even had, and never goes to t…
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So you rather Duo not exist and keep not having an app that you can use with both of your parents?
Because there are absolutely no other video chat apps in existence on both Android and iOS? Duo is the only possible option? The point is given the many, many other video chat apps that do already exist and fill this function, several of them produced by Google, what does Google think it's doing bringing out yet another one.
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Can't they just put a camera behind the screen? Been waiting for this for over a decade
Now that people are coming up with ways to put people's real facial expressions in VR, most video calls are probably going to be replaced with avatars generated from your face that use your facial expressions captured by the front-facing camera. https://vimeo.com/156034648
Edit: http://declineofscarcity.com/?page_id=2527
Published in 1996
Reading the comments... You guys know that any 3G/4G phone with a camera can make videocalls with awesome quality, right ?
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The problem is that I want such an app to exist (and thrive), but that history taught me not to get my hopes up when it comes to Google products. Chances are they will fail to gain a significant userbase and/or the product (better yet project) will be discontinued.
I don't see a better app at the moment since Skype got bought by Microsoft and all the encryption got nerfed. Although I get where you're coming from. It would also be nice if all products discontinued by google would just get open sourced. They are basically saying it's useless to them so why not let somebody else give a try.
Their standard reason is that most products use tons of internal API calls/private modules and it would take a lot of hours to replace those with code they're willing to release.
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Oh yes, Googles insistence to the horrible Chrome plugin (and ONLY chrome plugin, you're SoL if you want to use any other browser) instead of a slim desktop app like iMessage/Telegram is pretty much the reason why I've abandoned Hangouts.
I don't use a chrome plugin, hangouts works great inside gmail which I always keep open, or from https://hangouts.google.com/ .
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I'll trust that Google knows what they're doing when implementing encryption.
The question is not whether Google knows how to do proper end-to-end-encryption, the question is whether they want to do it. They have a clear incentive to not do it properly, which is being able to sift through your data to sell it to advertisers.
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WhatsApp is not specially an emerging market product, I think it is the most popular chat app in a bunch of European countries.
Yea I think the US is definitely an outlier there; Out of the couple dozen countries I've visited recently outside of the US, Whatsapp seems like hands-down the most popular messaging app (whereas in the US, almost no one I know uses it unless they're in frequent contact with a non-trivial number of foreigners).
So it makes sense to use whatsapp because it's data based and you can keep the same account across SIM card changes.
i.e. without randomly having to reboot your laptop before it will work