Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
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Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
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Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
#2I was starting to wonder if they were even going to launch a new messaging product this week.
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#4I was starting to wonder if they were even going to launch a new messaging product this week.
Their messaging strategy was lumbering worryingly towards being comprehensible. I'm glad they corrected that.
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#5Oh good we've gone full circle, back to Google Chat.
Re: Google Splits Hangouts into Chat and Meet
#6Oh 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 fragmentation.
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#7I think this may attract customer who have existing Gapps suit in their organization.
Advantage slack has is integration with different things and you can use any email address to sign up.
if Chat and meet required to sign in with only Gmail then people may not want to get locked in
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#8I'm no fan of slack but I don't see this as being competitive.
Google hangouts (which I use for sms, among other things) has a very poor search feature. Slack on the other hand has decent search capabilities. Plus, slack-bots are well integrated already. It does not avoid my largest criticism of slack: the inability to save conversation history locally.
This sounds like a late to market slack-clone. What is innovative about this offering?
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#9Slack is very important to a lot of companies and groups. We use it not only as an IRC replacement, but also to hook into our CI and git repos. Along with the wealth of information and tools already put in there, there is the mindset that Slack is our communication tool we can rely on.
Google does not have a good track record when it comes to supporting their products. Look at Picasa, Google Glass, Bump, Currents, and sadly, Google Reader.
Google is good at advertising, email, and search. But I would not put any investment of time or data into their other products if I knew I needed them in the future.
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#10Wow, Google playing catch up to Microsoft who's playing catch up to Slack.