Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS

Post by wink » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 11:36 AM UTC

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Is it a practical issue where you are? In France I can't remember the last time I've had issues with undelivered text messages and I use them quite a lot (I generally use the cheapest plan I can find which usually doesn't contain data, so I default to texts). For important messages I'll expect an explicit confirmation anyway, it's not enough that the message reaches the recipient's phone, they also have to read it! M…

If you've had a long running group chat over MMS, ask to see everyone else's phones. Messages will be in a different order on every phone and there will be many missing messages. My wife and I do this regularly because we won't understand something said and we'll see one of us didn't get a message from the group.

Post by raarts » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 1:58 PM UTC

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Head on over to Europe, and: > Ik steur je wel even een appje (I'll send you an message on WhatsApp) is the norm in The Netherlands. My entire family, extended family, and everyone around them is all on WhatsApp. While I communicate with iMessage/SMS with friends in the US, that's not the case outside of the US. Everyone seems to have WhatsApp, most people don't use Google hangouts or other services alongside that, l…

i am curious, where does it say "whatsapp" in dutch? you don't use international names?

Post by 4ad » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 2:08 PM UTC

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I don't see a single reason to invest myself into Google messaging product once again. I was adamant gtalk/hangout user but you can only fuck me over so many times.

To be fair, the migration from Talk to Hangouts was pretty smooth, and Hangouts still works. Google gave up pushing Hangouts for consumers but I don't think it's going anywhere, as it's a big part of G-suite for corporate customers. Though with Slack and Discord I'm sure it's usage isn't as strong as it once was.

Post by Piskvorrr » Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC

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Right. Embracing the open standards - like they did previously (e.g. with GTalk), and then suddenly..."oh look, we've improved the standard, and we're not publishing our extended version. It's so much greater, but only works with this one client, made by us - what a coincidence." Gee, I wonder where I saw this pattern before...nope, it's not like they're going to exterminate their Official Blessed Client once they ti…

Surely with that attitude they're damned if they do and damned if they don't? If they make their own standard it's bad, but if they adopt an industry standard they're probably going to ruin it , so that's also bad?

Post by vijaybritto » Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 1:35 AM UTC

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Please understand that the size of the population which uses this limited use case in my country is greater than multiple western countries' populations combined. I've been a developer for nearly 7 years and make a good amount of money in my country. Yet I've never touched an airplane. I'm telling this to point out the difference in living styles between the two zones of earth. All tech companies are rushing to captu…

Wow. That's surprising. I am from north India - based in Bangalore - and I fly almost every other month. Are you from a remote/small town or like tier 2-3 city? Freelancing maybe? As for the questions - it just got me curious.