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You can send messages using whatsapp desktop when your phone is off?

Oh shi- Dude! You're totally right. I thought you meant figuratively like "turn your computer off and go out". No, yeah. I get it. iMessage definitely does have that edge.

Hangouts + Google Voice integration works just fine as well. Which is why I think most of us in this thread are/were pissed off. It's the only solution for us right now, with no clear way forward.

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Okay, your experience is ... not representative. In this world there are tons of people using iphones, tons of other people using android. You see both frequently. There happen to be way more people using android but it doesn't matter, because there are sizable numbers using both, we should only consider solutions that work on both.

I agree, it’s not representative at all. But my point is that android users have problems because of the device they buy. There are likely trade offs. But google doesn’t want to solve this problem on a way that customers want. It’s like buying a diesel vehicle and then complaining that the hybrid systems suck for them. Don’t buy a diesel if you want hybrid engines. Or work with the manufacturer to change their incent…

I don't get your response. You have an app that only works on Apples, so you are basically suggesting that they should abandon android. But other people probably have an app that they require that is not on iphones. There are many different chat apps with billions of users that didn't come from Google and work on androids. Google is not stealing your text messages, if that's what you are thinking somehow.
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