If I use Adium on my Desktop and Hangouts on my phone will I see the group chats / google hangouts?
Hangouts for iOS
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#22Like most new Google things, it doesn't seem to be enabled for my Google Apps account. There's no clear indication of how to do this (if it's possible at this point).
Say what you want about Apple, but onboarding for iMessages and Facetime did not require navigating a byzantine admin panel. I understand that Google Apps is a different beast, but there's something to be said for a chat service _just working_ in the way that iMessages does: you put in someone's phone number (or email) and if they are registered it works.
I recently tried to use my non-Google Jabber account with a friend who's on Gmail. Apparently Google no longer allows invites from non-Google Jabber accounts in the chat built into Gmail. Getting chat to work with a new contact even just between Gmail accounts would sometimes require some pretty opaque incantations -- and with external Jabber accounts it's even worse! There's no indication that your invite didn't go through to them, and I was never able to get his invite to come through to me.
tl;dr Based on my prior experience with Google and their IM products, I'm not convinced this could be an iMessage/Kik/WhatsApp replacement. Will my mom be able to use it?
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#23Is there a relation to Google Talk for those outside of Android/Gmail web? I was under the impression that every XMPP app on iOS just stopped working properly a year or so ago. (In fact, this was a primary reason my sister went from iPhone 4 -> GSIII last year, since she uses Talk extensively with her friends.)
I still use Trillian on iOS for Google Talk and it works fine.
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#24Can we talk about the icon. I am not a designer but quotes inside of a word balloon? Don't word balloons and quotes have the same purpose?
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#25I don't understand why they only have video and no voice only. I use voice a lot, almost never video.
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#26I'm getting "Hangouts has not been enabled for your account". I'm guessing this is because my work account has Google+ disabled. So are you going to have to be on Google+ to use their messaging product now? Will they shut off Google Talk for regular gmail users?
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#27What's the difference between this and Hangouts in the Plus app?
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#28Like most new Google things, it doesn't seem to be enabled for my Google Apps account. There's no clear indication of how to do this (if it's possible at this point). Say what you want about Apple, but onboarding for iMessages and Facetime did not require navigating a byzantine admin panel. I understand that Google Apps is a different beast, but there's something to be said for a chat service _just working_ in the wa…
You are comparing a company launching on its own platform to a company launching on someone else's closed platform.
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#29I'm getting "Hangouts has not been enabled for your account". I'm guessing this is because my work account has Google+ disabled. So are you going to have to be on Google+ to use their messaging product now? Will they shut off Google Talk for regular gmail users?
Tried it with a few more accounts - if you try to use it with a regular gmail account it says "Authentication error: Google+ is required".
It's a little off that Larry Page was complaining about Microsoft not using open standards but then they go and introduce a totally new closed system within their closed social network.
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#30Like most new Google things, it doesn't seem to be enabled for my Google Apps account. There's no clear indication of how to do this (if it's possible at this point). Say what you want about Apple, but onboarding for iMessages and Facetime did not require navigating a byzantine admin panel. I understand that Google Apps is a different beast, but there's something to be said for a chat service _just working_ in the wa…
You are comparing a company launching on its own platform to a company launching on someone else's closed platform.
I understand this; that's what I meant by "I understand that Google Apps is a different beast".
Regardless, to the average end user this distinction doesn't matter. I think users will gravitate to what works well and what their friends use.
I really hope this is Google Hangouts instead of Facebook Messages (ugggh).
iMessages has problems of its own (TERRIBLE sync between devices), but it has the huge advantage of working for everyone with an iDevice.
What I really want:
1) a service that works seamlessly between any device (like iMessages is supposed to for iOS and OS X)
2) this service should be platform-agnostic, working on any computer or mobile device
3) it should be federated like Jabber so we don't have to depend on one company
4) comparable features with the existing services: read receipts, group chat, push notifications
I hope Google Hangouts is exactly this, and that they let me enable it for my Google Apps account.