Its like Google is becoming a Javascript framework.
Google Talk Is Being Discontinued
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#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I like my communication channels separate. You could always keep them separate, if you wanted to. This feature was totally invisible to people who left it turned off. I personally want to have all my messaging in one place, which used to be possible. Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app, find their name, and then messag…
> Now everything is fragmented, and I constantly have to remember how each person in my life prefers to communicate, open the right app I think this is true to an extent, but I think messaging isn't as simple "get this text to this person." Different communications channels have different contexts, implied importance, etc. Making them too unified papers over and confuses those social differences. For instance, it wou…
We should solve that within the same protocol. Allow multiple named conversation streams for any combination of contacts with an interface to filter them (private, work, dating, family).
I also want priority of messages to let the receiver handle them differently (low/normal/high). Default ‘normal’ and changeable within reach, but quite invisible. Anyone can then let me write a ‘high’ priority message that makes noise in the middle of the night, or if I suspect they're resting and I want to send a cat picture I'll use ‘low’.
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#343> we’ve evolved Hangouts to focus on two new experiences > Google Talk launched in 2005 as a simple chat experience To quote Inigo Montoya, 'You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.' > As part of our continued effort to focus Google+ around shared interests, we’re retiring two legacy Google+ features in Gmail: the ability to email Google+ profiles and the use of Google+ Circles. Sad…
Why's this getting downvotes? I think that calling software & features 'experiences' rather than 'software' and 'features' is a symptom of precisely what's wrong with Google's current direction.
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#344The worst news in this announcement by Google is that "Quote Selected Text" in Gmail will be retired, it was essentially the only lab feature I used, I even got used to. I'm sad to see it go.
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#345LOL years ago someone in mainland China copycat ICQ. Now the company he founded is known as Tencent.
Well, to be fair, WeChat is a pretty good application.
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#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
... and end to end encryption would be a thing. Open federated protocols with no obligation for providers to upgrade as the security landscape changes are a betrayal of user security and privacy of the highest order. HTTPS is only becoming reasonable because Google can use its monopoly power and forced upgrade mechanism to bully website owners into adopting better practices. If we had a fragmented ecosystem of many o…
No, closed ones are a betrayal. If someone doesn't upgrade, you can easily exclude them from communication and even build such logic in the protocol itself. It will pressure them to be up to date. I don't see an issue here.
You can't do that if the ones that refuse to upgrade are some of the bigger providers on the network.
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#347It's weird when Apple has the better messenger app.. Even more so when they got into that position without actually changing anything..
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#348Boy, do I regret giving so many people my GV number and using it as a main phone number... They are also removing Hangouts' SMS integration, BUT: > Note: This change does not impact Google Voice users who may continue to use Hangouts for their Google Voice SMS. That doesn't really make me feel great, it's only a matter of time before it changes again, and I'm quite sure the experience of staying in Hangouts will be a…
> Boy, do I regret giving so many people my GV number and using it as a main phone number...
I recently switched to Google Fi and opted to bring in my Google Voice number. Fi works okay, but now that it's a "real" number, if I were to switch to Verizon or something, I could port it there.
So you might consider that approach to get your phone number out of the ecosystem.
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#349Boy, do I regret giving so many people my GV number and using it as a main phone number... They are also removing Hangouts' SMS integration, BUT: > Note: This change does not impact Google Voice users who may continue to use Hangouts for their Google Voice SMS. That doesn't really make me feel great, it's only a matter of time before it changes again, and I'm quite sure the experience of staying in Hangouts will be a…
Note that you can transfer your Google Voice number to another provider. I think there is a small fee the first time you do it. https://www.google.com/voice/unlock
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#350This is mostly towards g suite enterprise offering.