Re:Google Hangouts Removes Merged SMS Conversations, Adds Video
by e12e on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @06:36PM
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I think this is taking it to the next level, even for Google.
They now make hangouts be on parity with Allo, except for no opt-in end-to-end encryption? Or is the difference that Allo allows encryption, and Hangouts allow group video chat?
BTW, I know I've used videochat via hangouts on Android some time in the past two years - but I guess maybe that was through chrome?
The good news is that there's some work on the open XMPP side, with conversations[1] (along with the OMEMO protocol [2]) and zom.im [3] -- so it looks like we're set for another xmpp revolution. And if that fails, there's always Matrix[4] (And the best part of that is that it's not either/or - we can have both. And everyone else can rot in their crummy message silos. Good riddance).
They now make hangouts be on parity with Allo, except for no opt-in end-to-end encryption? Or is the difference that Allo allows encryption, and Hangouts allow group video chat?
BTW, I know I've used videochat via hangouts on Android some time in the past two years - but I guess maybe that was through chrome?
The good news is that there's some work on the open XMPP side, with conversations[1] (along with the OMEMO protocol [2]) and zom.im [3] -- so it looks like we're set for another xmpp revolution. And if that fails, there's always Matrix[4] (And the best part of that is that it's not either/or - we can have both. And everyone else can rot in their crummy message silos. Good riddance).
[1] https://github.com/siacs/Conversations
[2] https://conversations.im/omemo/
[3] https://github.com/zom/zom-android
[4] https://matrix.org/