Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.
I think gchat always worked at least inside gmail.
That transitioned over to Hangouts in 2013, and the final GChat app (Windows) stopped working 2 years ago.
Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
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#42Google Cloud Next '17... introducing products that will go live in '18 and be shuttered in '20.
Our company is evaluating team collaboration products right now. I told them not to even look at hangouts because you couldn't trust Google to keep a product alive. This was two days ago...
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#43I don't think I will move any substantial business communication to Google Chat. I'm happy there is competition but Slack nailed it and now google is playing catchup.
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#44Why do Google keep rebranding their chat attempts? Why don't they iteratively improve what they have?
Poor organization structure, I'd guess
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#45More than likely Google Meet is trying to take market segment away from Slack with the major advantage of offering video meetings. I can't imagine it will be free. Not that I suggest it should be. edit: Nope. https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html
I'm more concerned that they would abruptly drop it in a couple of years.
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#46Poe's Law as applied to enterprise messaging platforms.
Dear Google,
Please make one amazing chat app. Just one. Merge Allo, Duo, Chat, Hangouts, Meet, Messenger, Voice, and your RCS platform into one extensible platform with third party integrations.
The comments in this thread? They are not flattering. It is not a sign of joy that people comment on Google releasing a new chat app, or confusing your branding even further.
Here's a quick question: I have a friend on Android, I have an iPhone, how do I message them? What's your best solution. What if I want to switch from messaging to voice? What if I want to make a video call? What if I want to invite a third person? iPhones make it easy to transition between different types of communication, and provide useful SMS sync to computers.
Slack, Microsoft's Teams, and surprisingly Discord, are all moving in the direction of being a single hub for communication. Admittedly, Slack and Teams don't make it easy (yet) to message people outside your organization. Discord does, and they're beating you to the punch, quelle surprise. All of the above platforms are easy to set up on the web and smartphones.
So please, please stop this proliferation. Stop footgunning yourselves on messaging platforms. Build one, make it amazing, and devote resources to making it work for users and organizations.
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#47Let's wait for the next iteration where they put Duo, Allo, Chat and Meet into one product named "Hangout Next".
But I'm happy they do not forget the enterprise... using hangouts nearly every day with slack and /hangout . Still the best quality when you have a global team and sometimes flacky internet or below 300 Kbit/s bandwidth.
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#48I'll never for Meebo. It just worked, and Google shut it down.
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#49Oh yay, more chat apps from Google. I had finally hit a nice point of integration: using Hangouts with Project Fi means I got somewhat close to the iMessage experience (at least as far as being able to send/receive SMS from my computer). Clearly the integration wasn't great, and the Hangouts app is badly in need of work, but it's a shame to see that even that limited functionality is going away in favor of more fragm…
The new Google Voice app is a relatively good experience, unified across web/mobile platforms.
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#50Oh yay, more chat apps from Google. I had finally hit a nice point of integration: using Hangouts with Project Fi means I got somewhat close to the iMessage experience (at least as far as being able to send/receive SMS from my computer). Clearly the integration wasn't great, and the Hangouts app is badly in need of work, but it's a shame to see that even that limited functionality is going away in favor of more fragm…
I use PushBullet to send SMS from my computer. It get's the job done. https://www.pushbullet.com/
Join[1] is a nice alternative to PushBullet. Does most of what PushBullet does [including sending SMS from your computer] but costs a one-time fee of £4,99, instead of PushBullet's monthly subscription.