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The feature is technically interesting, but I don't care about Allo. There are enough silly messaging apps out there, evolving in their own silos. I miss the days of the XMPP protocol.
Me too. I do not know any of my friends who are using Allo. Why didn't Google roll out this feature within Hangouts?
The feature is technically interesting, but I don't care about Allo. There are enough silly messaging apps out there, evolving in their own silos. I miss the days of the XMPP protocol.
Me too. I do not know any of my friends who are using Allo. Why didn't Google roll out this feature within Hangouts?
This is childish. Apple's version of this works better, in real time, in FaceTime, because it's above a threshold of kiddiness.
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Me too. I do not know any of my friends who are using Allo. Why didn't Google roll out this feature within Hangouts?
Hangouts is now meant to be intended for enterprise use while Allo is the consumer-focused messaging app
On the desktop/browser, I guess there isn't a consumer-focused messaging app anymore. Unless I'm missing something obvious, Google apparently ceded that ground to others.
I'm beginning to realize why Allo is as goofy as it is. It's not actually a messaging app. It's a machine learning playground app with a feature to send stuff to other people occasionally. Allo makes more sense as a concept if you look at it that way, though as a product, that's a bonkers idea that basically no one needs. Hence the non-existent user base.
Not only that, but this 'dumb' application has immediate value(gets more people to use google's service and thus display ads to them). Because of the value these dumb applications have, they could help drive AI research and development of general purpose machine learning hardware.
Sometimes it's ok to do 'dumb' things.
The feature is technically interesting, but I don't care about Allo. There are enough silly messaging apps out there, evolving in their own silos. I miss the days of the XMPP protocol.
I have always trouble remembering where a message came in. I have SMS / iMessage, Messenger, Whatsapp, 5 e-mail accounts and a Forum Inbox to worry about. And since you can't exactly flag messages as 'to do' I have to answer immediately or risk forgetting to reply. I hate that.
I have Messages, which i think is Google's... and i only downloaded it because the apps from Samsung, Verizon, and Facebook went to war in January (on my phone at least) and somehow I ended up getting texts in either the samsung app or verizon but never both, but group conversations in facebook messenger, but only the verizon app would actually allow picture messages to be viewable if i sent them to my mother.
I also have Allo, because a (<-- not plural) coworker and I were curious about it. I think it solved that they didn't have facebook but did have apple, or maybe not i don't know. I also downloaded Duo and haven't opened it since, and I had hangouts, but i'm so very angry that Google screwed that up yet again. I have zero confidence in Google products fulfilling any of my needs completely ever again, and I really used to be the Google-champion of my friends... sigh.
Has anybody actually tried it yet? I haven't seen any results outside of this blog post.
Has anybody actually tried it yet? I haven't seen any results outside of this blog post.
Just did, it worked pretty well. It reminds me a lot of Nintendo's thing where they automatically make a Mii based off a picture of your face, except better. If you don't like the sticker pack that was outputted, you can fix your hair or whatever and try again. Took about 10-20 seconds for the first try, only 1-2 seconds for the second try, so there's probably some caching going on. My only complaint is that it's not…