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Google Allo – First Impression

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Post by hackaflocka »

hbosch wrote: post #7
hackaflocka wrote: post #4

If there are any Googlers on here reading this, some free unsolicited advice from me to you: GMail is awesome. It made email 10 times better and easier (for me anyways) to use. Here's an idea: GText. Despite all the products that have come out, we still refer to texting as, well, texting. So, mail:GMail::text:GText. Here's my problem with Apple's iMessages: they take up all this space on my phone. And when I change p…

You're in luck! There is a little-known product made by Google called Hangouts[0]. It is cross platform: iOS, Android, Web, and has native apps for Windows and macOS. It stores your texts in the cloud forever, lets you send emojis and images, files, lets you video chat from any platform to any platform, and every single person with a gmail account already has it! Bonus: on Android phones it can also send SMS and MMS,…

It lacks integration with SMS though.

GText will integrate SMS and all in-house Google instant-messaging/texting modalities.

Re: Google Allo – First Impression

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Post by Arathorn »

brightball wrote: post #79
JustSomeNobody wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I definitely want an open service to succeed. I think one big problem is with the major players, non-techies know they just work (more or less) and people will use them so there's not much hassle. Even among techies, there's chat fatigue now. That being said, I have this nagging idea in my head that the more chat apps that get thrown at people, the easier it may be for an open service to prevail.

I'd tend to agree with you. With a diffusion of options you're essentially going to see the natural rise of 2 corporate competitors and 1 alternative option that many people support out of principle. It's a mind share pattern that seems to exist in many places: Hipchat, Slack, Matrix Windows, OSX, Ubuntu Linux Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians .NET, Java, Open Source Dynamic options -> Ruby/Python/Javascript/PHP/E…

It's worth noting that sometimes the alternative option wins... e.g. once upon a time on the web, the 2 corporate competitors were Microsoft IIS and Netscape Enterprise Server... and 'underdog' Apache :)
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