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So there's no presence/status notifications? I'll miss that when this hits GMail.
Inside the conversation, if someone is faded out then they are not there, but an unfaded image shows when they are currently in the conversation.
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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 ra…
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Google+ wants to integrate everything and that can cause problems if you use their services for important things. I'm still refusing to link my primary gmail address with a Google+ account after the big issue with name verification. My name is very unamerican so until I move everything important off of gmail, I won't join g+. I know they promised not to do that anymore, but they hold too much data right now to trust…
You seem to have the workaround already, though: make a separate account. I'm not going to argue that it's a good thing that you need to do that, but it doesn't seem worse than having to e.g. sign up for a separate Skype account to use Skype.
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…
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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 Ta…
This is what I was hoping Hangouts would be, almost. There's a couple things there I wouldn't expect Google to do, and that I wouldn't miss too much. But you're right, Apple is close and I just wanted Google to do exactly what they've done, without the complaints people have with syncing (which is something Google are awesome at anyway) and across devices. They came so close, but lack of SMS means it's not really uni…
According to my G+ stream, Amit Singhal has announced that Hangouts is also going to be the future of Google Voice. And apparently you can already choose to get SMS messages from Hangouts when you are idle. A less important piece of SMS integration, to be sure, but that certainly looks like a starting point.
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.…
That screenshot you show would surely be an iOS issue, not an app-specific one?
I know this is a nit-picky thing but why does this app require 6.1 or later? Thats a funny move. 6.0 I can understand. What functionality could they have in 6.1 that made them have to require it?
They might have just targeted the 6.1 sdk and decided not to deal with the 6.0 issues. For new things it is actually a good idea as 6.1 is quite a bit better than 6.0 in things like core data.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/Genera...
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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?
Comparing it to skype, I actually have two skype accounts, one "public" for friends and work related things, and set on my workstation, and an obscure private one that only a few family members see, set on y phone. Having the same set up for Hangout would feel like a nightmare with all the related services entangled, switching signups even to look at pictures etc.
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".