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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by blunte on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:38AM (#12547213)
It does indeed appear to be their strategy; although it seems to work well enough for them. It's just a bit frustrating for users who periodically lose an app they came to depend on.
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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by icebraining on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:18AM (#12547466)
Does it work for them, though? I don't remember their successful products arising from this process; they never had a bunch of email services before Gmail, nor multiple mobile OSs before Android, nor different browsers before Chrome, etc. The closest might be Google Video before YouTube, but it wasn't really the same kind of product.
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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by shawabawa3 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:10AM (#12548270)
> The closest might be Google Video before YouTube, but it wasn't really the same kind of product.

Also YouTube was already the dominant player (beating google video) by the time google acquired it. It wasn't built by google

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