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Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by film42 »

propelledjeans wrote: post #54
film42 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"I have yet to attempt a group chat."

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by 6thSigma »

coldtea wrote: post #44
6thSigma wrote: post #28

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You are comparing a company launching on its own platform to a company launching on someone else's closed platform.

No, he doesn't do that anywhere in his message. He is complaining about what Google does even WITHIN it's own platform (and the web).

Regardless of what Google does within its own platform, he still compared what Google did on iOS to what Apple did on iOS.

FWIW, I have Android and when I downloaded and launched Hangouts it automatically logged me in. I assume iMessage was similar - but a third-party app wouldn't be for obvious reasons.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by coldtea »

6thSigma wrote: post #72
coldtea wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he doesn't do that anywhere in his message. He is complaining about what Google does even WITHIN it's own platform (and the web).

Regardless of what Google does within its own platform, he still compared what Google did on iOS to what Apple did on iOS. FWIW, I have Android and when I downloaded and launched Hangouts it automatically logged me in. I assume iMessage was similar - but a third-party app wouldn't be for obvious reasons.

>Regardless of what Google does within its own platform, he still compared what Google did on iOS to what Apple did on iOS.

And nothing, even on this part of his complaint, was about things that Google couldn't fix because Apple didn't let them.

So the "closed/someone-else's platform" remark was redundant.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by coldtea »

mikeash wrote: post #63
sneak wrote: post #57

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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 ra…

FaceTime requires an Apple ID and Skype requires a Skype account, so I'm confused, how is requiring a G+ account any different?

In that both of those are fire and forget, whereas your Google/G+ account is used for tons of stuff people don't really like but are shoved into their throats.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by shanselman »

masnick wrote: post #22

Like most new Google things, it doesn't seem to be enabled for my Google Apps account. There's no clear indication of how to do this (if it's possible at this point). Say what you want about Apple, but onboarding for iMessages and Facetime did not require navigating a byzantine admin panel. I understand that Google Apps is a different beast, but there's something to be said for a chat service _just working_ in the wa…

A useful tip about Google features and Google apps. FREE Google Apps users get them on by default. PAID Google Apps users get them OFF by default. I needed to turn on Talk and Hangouts today.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by caycep »

hangouts was cool at 1st. Now it's kinda cool in that you can hang out w/ your favorite computer science academics but that is about it...

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by mlex »

myko wrote: post #68
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.…

To be fair to Google, Apple did break rotation in lots of apps in iOS 6. Though the fix isn't that difficult and I'm surprised that new releases are running into this.

The Hangouts app is iOS 6.1 only.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by notatoad »

wting wrote: post #12
corresation wrote: post #3

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I assumed that they were rolling out an update to Google+ that will have hangouts as a component of it. They talked about it under the context of Google+ with the statement "adds another icon". They do rolling updates for things like that so I would expect to it sometime this evening.

If you check the URL for Google Hangouts you'll notice it's pointing to the old identifier for Google Talk (com.google.android.talk): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... You'll notice this same link is used in multiple locations promoting Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ It looks like they temporarily pulled the Google Talk app to transition everyone to Google H…

The app requires permissions to send, receive, and read SMS and MMS messages. support is definitely coming.

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by orbitur »

ga0bi wrote: post #10

For those unable to find it in the iOS App Store: Search for a Google app (i.e. Google+) and click "Related". You'll find Hangouts in the See All list.

Ran into this and solved by searching for just "hangouts".

Re: Hangouts for iOS

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Post by orbitur »

icesoldier wrote: post #18

Is there a relation to Google Talk for those outside of Android/Gmail web? I was under the impression that every XMPP app on iOS just stopped working properly a year or so ago. (In fact, this was a primary reason my sister went from iPhone 4 -> GSIII last year, since she uses Talk extensively with her friends.)

If that was the case, not anymore. On iOS, I'm using BeeJive for Google Talk and it works fine. Mo+ has an app as well.
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