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Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by cremnob »

zefhous wrote: post #38

Not a great first experience on the iPad for me. 1. Launch app in landscape. Oh, I guess they don't support landscape orientation for signing it. That's annoying. 2. Change orientation to portrait and sign in. 3. A dialog requesting to send push notifications appears — in landscape orientation ( http://cl.ly/image/2t2P0X3f2H2Z ) — but I'm still holding it in portrait and the rest of the UI is in portrait as well. 4.…

I deleted it after I found out it requires you to have a Google+ account. I guess I shouldn't have had my hopes up considering it's called Hangouts.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by propelledjeans »

film42 wrote: post #45
vinayan3 wrote: post #21

If I use Adium on my Desktop and Hangouts on my phone will I see the group chats / google hangouts?

So far it's syncing the messages sent and received via Adium. They show up in google+, although they're not automatically marked as read (though I've not yet received the google+ update). Images and hangout invites are not synced. I have yet to attempt a group chat. UPDATE: Photos will show in the messenger, or send you a link to a google+ page if you're on gchat.

You're right for single messages, but I'm not seeing group messages in Adium.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by wwdevries »

zefhous wrote: post #38

Not a great first experience on the iPad for me. 1. Launch app in landscape. Oh, I guess they don't support landscape orientation for signing it. That's annoying. 2. Change orientation to portrait and sign in. 3. A dialog requesting to send push notifications appears — in landscape orientation ( http://cl.ly/image/2t2P0X3f2H2Z ) — but I'm still holding it in portrait and the rest of the UI is in portrait as well. 4.…

Now that Google is pushing Google+ even harder in everything new they launch.. I just wish Google would somehow make it possible to merge two Google Apps accounts into one public Google+ account. Now I have to manage multiple Google+ which makes me feel a little schizophrenic and it's confusing to other people who aren't sure on which account to connect with me. It's getting messy.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by ryanglasgow »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #24

Can we talk about the icon. I am not a designer but quotes inside of a word balloon? Don't word balloons and quotes have the same purpose?

Agreed. The icon is as generic as it gets, and feels really cheap. I'm surprised they didn't stick with their other app icon branding, which is a solid color with a white icon.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by sneak »

cremnob wrote: post #51
zefhous wrote: post #38

Not a great first experience on the iPad for me. 1. Launch app in landscape. Oh, I guess they don't support landscape orientation for signing it. That's annoying. 2. Change orientation to portrait and sign in. 3. A dialog requesting to send push notifications appears — in landscape orientation ( http://cl.ly/image/2t2P0X3f2H2Z ) — but I'm still holding it in portrait and the rest of the UI is in portrait as well. 4.…

I deleted it after I found out it requires you to have a Google+ account. I guess I shouldn't have had my hopes up considering it's called Hangouts.

Yeah, they can't seriously expect to compete with FaceTime and Skype adoption rates if they continue trying to force users to engage with their terrible social feature crap just because they want to make video calls.

Then again, Google's playing a very long game here with Plus (and Android, and self-driving cars, and a zillion other things). Who knows if it'll work out in the end. What I do know today is that it's rather annoying.

I'd just like to be able to vidchat with friends from my chromebook without having to get all my friends to fuck up their youtube accounts.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by sneak »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #35
masnick wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand this; that's what I meant by "I understand that Google Apps is a different beast". Regardless, to the average end user this distinction doesn't matter. I think users will gravitate to what works well and what their friends use. I really hope this is Google Hangouts instead of Facebook Messages (ugggh). iMessages has problems of its own (TERRIBLE sync between devices), but it has the huge advantage of wor…

Other than number 3, this seems to match hangouts, assuming it works as they say (in a way iMessage doesn't seem to for you). The killer missing feature for me is SMS though, a vast majority of people cannot use Hangouts for the vast majority of their conversations because of the Google+ requirement.

One of my biggest hopes in life is that someone with good project management experience puts something up on kickstarter to build really really good clients for a federated videochat/messaging system (could even be based on xmpp) for every single major platform (osx, windows, android, iOS, WM, html5/browser) so that we can finally ditch all these terrible walled gardens (SMS, Skype, FaceTime, iMessage, BBM, Google Talk, AIM, WhatsApp, Facebook Chat, Twitter DMs, ad nauseam) once and for all.

If you do it before I find the time, please don't forget the end-to-end encryption and synchronization of read items across devices.

It's frustrating because so many are so close. iMessage/FaceTime would be the end-all if it were federated and supported on multiple platforms, because they came the closest to getting it right (but stopped just short of doing the thing that's best for customers versus the thing that's best for Apple).

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by rbnio »

wwdevries wrote: post #55
zefhous wrote: post #38

Not a great first experience on the iPad for me. 1. Launch app in landscape. Oh, I guess they don't support landscape orientation for signing it. That's annoying. 2. Change orientation to portrait and sign in. 3. A dialog requesting to send push notifications appears — in landscape orientation ( http://cl.ly/image/2t2P0X3f2H2Z ) — but I'm still holding it in portrait and the rest of the UI is in portrait as well. 4.…

Now that Google is pushing Google+ even harder in everything new they launch.. I just wish Google would somehow make it possible to merge two Google Apps accounts into one public Google+ account. Now I have to manage multiple Google+ which makes me feel a little schizophrenic and it's confusing to other people who aren't sure on which account to connect with me. It's getting messy.

I successfully merged my Google Apps Google+ account with my regular Google+ account. Have you tried this?

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1716102?hl=en&top...

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