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Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

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This is what's so annoying about Apple: why no Android client? How can you hope to have a communications platform that is so severely constrained? That's why so few here barely even know about Facetime. You can't invest in it because it's so limited.

'hope to'? They don't hope to, it exists. 15-20 million FaceTime calls every day: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/28/apple-40-billion-imessag...

So 8% of users try it once per day? I'm wondering how that compares to phone, messages, email, whatsapp, Skype, etc? Very poorly, I'd say.

Re: Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

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I was really hoping the Google Voice app for iOS would get another update, but that seems even more unlikely now. Sadly, I cannot use my main gmail account with hangouts, as I don't want to create a google+ account for it. Oh well.

I eat my words. Today I was pleasantly surprised to see that Google finally made an update to the iOS Google voice app.
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