Google Allo is now available on the web • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Allo is now available on the web

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Post by newscracker » Wed, Aug 16, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

philtar wrote: post #20

Google is a complete joke when it comes to understanding people. Allo Duo Google Chat Google Meet Four. Four different chatting applications. Whatsapp has one. Facebook has one. Apple has one. WeChat has one. Google has four.

I'm sure Facebook has two - WhatsApp and FB Messenger - and is struggling to figure out (and working on) how to keep just one and eliminate the other.

Re: Google Allo is now available on the web

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Post by marssaxman » Wed, Aug 16, 2017, 7:14 PM UTC

The screaming-monster image and the context-free exhortation to switch to Chrome (no, thanks!) do very little to inform me about what Allo is or why I would want to use it. This does not strike me as a particularly good design.

Re: Google Allo is now available on the web

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Post by pastelsky » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 1:29 AM UTC

PleaseHelpMe wrote: post #18

lucideer wrote: post #7

> Almost there! Just visit g.co/alloforweb in your Chrome browser. > Don't have Chrome? Get it Ah yes, we're back in 2002 again.

Support for other browsers are coming. I am neither working on this nor a Google engineer, but I saw a tweet from relavent developers working on this.

I wonder if the Allo team would have thought of doing this if Chrome's browser share was half of what its current today.

Re: Google Allo is now available on the web

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Post by pitaj » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 2:37 AM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #31

philtar wrote: post #20

Google is a complete joke when it comes to understanding people. Allo Duo Google Chat Google Meet Four. Four different chatting applications. Whatsapp has one. Facebook has one. Apple has one. WeChat has one. Google has four.

I'm sure Facebook has two - WhatsApp and FB Messenger - and is struggling to figure out (and working on) how to keep just one and eliminate the other.

Facebook has many apps: WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and maybe more

Re: Google Allo is now available on the web

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Post by newscracker » Thu, Aug 17, 2017, 3:41 PM UTC

pitaj wrote: post #34

newscracker wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure Facebook has two - WhatsApp and FB Messenger - and is struggling to figure out (and working on) how to keep just one and eliminate the other.

Facebook has many apps: WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and maybe more

I was referring to primarily text/emoji based, person-to-person apps/platforms (similar to Allo). That's why I listed only WhatsApp and FB Messenger and intentionally ignored the other ones.