...neither of which has any support for third-party clients, still.
Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
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#12I hope they'll fuse chat, message and allo, this is getting ridiculous
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#13Is Google's strategy to enumerate all possible messaging / social applications ? Then either stop development on them or shut them down when they don't have more than 1 million people using them within 6 months?
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#14> Your browser doesn't support Hangouts Meet
> To join this meeting, install the latest version of Google Chrome.
I guess no more meetings for me then...
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#15Why do Google keep rebranding their chat attempts? Why don't they iteratively improve what they have?
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#16Oh for fuck's sake.
Which is basically what I end up thinking after virtually every Google announcement regarding chat.
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#17Google still didn't fix the damage they did by abandoning XMPP, and not supporting server to server encryption in Google Talk.
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#18I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive. Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally. This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovativ…
>Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks that a search function seems absolutely basic for a messaging app.
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#19Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.
I think gchat always worked at least inside gmail.
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#20Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.
I feel like this isn't even the first time we've gone full circle on Google's messaging products.