Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software

Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by magicalist on Monday February 08, 2016 @07:26PM (#11062070)

> Agreed. I'm unfortunately forced to use the Hangouts app on android since Google Voice was smushed into it (losing 90% of its best features in the process, like being able to mark voicemails as spam). So now I'm stuck doing my texting shoehorned alongside this other chat app that none of my friends use except by accident when they meant to send a text.

You can go into hangouts settings and turn off google voice handling.

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Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by wlesieutre on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:51PM (#11062495)

The problem was actually that once you'd migrated a GV account to using hangouts, there was no way to go back. Did a bit of looking and this is no longer the case: http://i.imgur.com/qtxfYGP.png

So I guess I can go back. I'd miss the better voice calling integration (the one improvement that "hangouts dialer" brought) and I'm not sure how well maintained the GV app is these days, but I may give it a go.

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Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software by magicalist on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @03:08AM (#11063871)

For a data point of one: I refused the popup and never switched and things work the same as ever for me. The only annoying thing is that you get that dialog every single time you visit the website. The app is virtually the same as it's been for years, for better or worse.

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