The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

It has to hurt somewhere inside Google to kill Allo but not Duo. I honestly expected the opposite given the original push behind these apps. The problem with all these messaging experiences is that none of them work well on both dekstop and mobile. They seem to be optimized one way or the other.

If Google had a Telegram like experience (my favorite messaging app by far) along with their meetings app, their messaging woes would be over. I'm not sure what prevents them from creating something like that ? They seem to be driven by internal priorities/politics and lack a basic ability to see things from consumers' perspective.

Re: The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 3:05 AM UTC

nyrulez wrote: post #5

It has to hurt somewhere inside Google to kill Allo but not Duo. I honestly expected the opposite given the original push behind these apps. The problem with all these messaging experiences is that none of them work well on both dekstop and mobile. They seem to be optimized one way or the other. If Google had a Telegram like experience (my favorite messaging app by far) along with their meetings app, their messaging…

Does Google have another video calling solution similar to Duo to replace it with?

Re: The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

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Post by lightedman » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 3:06 AM UTC

nyrulez wrote: post #5

It has to hurt somewhere inside Google to kill Allo but not Duo. I honestly expected the opposite given the original push behind these apps. The problem with all these messaging experiences is that none of them work well on both dekstop and mobile. They seem to be optimized one way or the other. If Google had a Telegram like experience (my favorite messaging app by far) along with their meetings app, their messaging…

Telegram is a horrible UI experience. It lacks a useful buddy list, is bandwidth-intensive, and one of its biggest selling points, encryption, almost nobody uses because it is resource-intensive junk and can even slow a computer down enough that 1990s DOOM has issues keeping a solid framerate.

Re: The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

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Post by tehlike » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 3:07 AM UTC

The text of the blog post is very confusing at best. I consistently got the feeling we have no idea how to do messaging, and we are throwing many things to see which one sticks. In other words, the blog post felt like it was a post about telling how we have no idea what we are doing using some thousand words.

Messages app is very primitive. I like hangouts way more. I can hop from text message to video chat with family with a single click. My project fi integrates nicely too, and to me this is a pretty good value prop.

Disclaimer, google employee in an unrelated product.

Re: The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

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Post by pspeter3 » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 3:08 AM UTC

I really want to know what is the plan for Project Fi. The Hangouts integration is one of the best aspects of the service

Re: The latest on Messages, Allo, Duo and Hangouts

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Post by dorfsmay » Thu, Dec 06, 2018, 3:09 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #6

nyrulez wrote: post #5

It has to hurt somewhere inside Google to kill Allo but not Duo. I honestly expected the opposite given the original push behind these apps. The problem with all these messaging experiences is that none of them work well on both dekstop and mobile. They seem to be optimized one way or the other. If Google had a Telegram like experience (my favorite messaging app by far) along with their meetings app, their messaging…

Does Google have another video calling solution similar to Duo to replace it with?

Hangouts?