It's a classic Google delusion - they produce keynote demos, not products.
This Allo app doesn't solve the problem of people (that actually means all people you talk to) having to opt into it.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11699122/google-allo-messa...
> "It's really liberating to start from scratch sometimes," says Erik Kay
Yeah, developers hate maintenance and improving existing products, but for users having 12 chat apps is really annoying.
From your article:
In the example Google showed us, a graduation photo came
through. The suggested replies were along the lines of
"Congratulations!" and "You look great!" Think for a moment about
what it takes to do that. Google recognized it was a graduation
photo and then went a step beyond just guessing what it was, it
guessed at appropriate responses.
Dystopian future headline from December 25th, 2040: Millions of zombie "Happy Holiday" texts, Google to use death certificate database to fight zombies.
It also learns users that time investing into their apps doesn't last, which is basically company suicide.
Let's hope they allow you to msg people you've had gmail correspondence with. Could be in a separate inbox until you accept them.
I feel like it's only getting worse with this Duo rollout. "We call it 'Knock knock' -- now you can not only see who's calling, but see _why_ they're calling"
Suddenly Gavin Belson curing cancer with compression seems like a better sell.
Guess I am one of the few who got excited about the Duo launch. I always wanted a Facetime like feature for Android phones, a light weight one which just works unlike Skype/Hangout. Though, I feel they should have wrapper both in a same app(may be hangouts), i feel it's great to have a native video calling from Google.
Why isn't this hangouts? Are they going to kill that too? I can't get onboard with any of these Google products because they drop them as soon as they have something "cooler"
Because these days Google releases for iOS first and there are no android apps to build on there, so they don't even try. And then we get the redundant android app which is a port of the iOS app.
It's completely nonsensical.
Machine learning to one-hit reply "Cute dog"? Billions of dollars and these features seem pretty boring.