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Re:Google Hangouts Removes Merged SMS Conversations, Adds Video by niftich on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:26PM (#12089786)
They're free to disagree; ostensibly they may have telemetry on it. But it was a feature the user could opt into if they so chose (if I recall, it was in fact opt-in [1]) and now they no longer have that choice.

[1] http://www.greenbot.com/article/2971862/android-apps/how-to-...

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Re:Google Hangouts Removes Merged SMS Conversations, Adds Video by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @05:34PM (#12089840)
Well, yes, obviously it was a feature that existed and could theoretically be used -- that's not in dispute anywhere; there's a pretty big gap between that and being a feature that was, in practice, actually useful.
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