Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by paulryanrogers on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:21AM (#12547486)

Without brand it's hard to stand out in the crowded messaging space.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by rubber_duck on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:55AM (#12547713)

Honestly crap like this is devaluing their brand. At this point I have 0 faith that Google will stick to any of their random products (Google Wave, Buzz, Reader, Code, Google+) and therefore I avoid using them.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by fzzzy on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:09AM (#12547791)

It really is devaluing the brand. Bring back Google Talk.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by markab21 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:23AM (#12547885)

Google had corporate/cross platform messaging before it was cool. Gmail, Google Talk was a killer combo for our small teams.

Dumb dumb dumb.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by degenerate on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:44AM (#12548603)

Google Talk was perfect. PER-FECT. Of course they killed it!

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by theshrike79 on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:25PM (#12559504)

They didn't even properly kill it, they just let it slowly stagnate.

Like they're doing with Hangouts now. No real new features have appeared in years.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by subliminalpanda on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:01AM (#12548196)

I really miss Google reader.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by chaoticelf13 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:42AM (#12549219)

Feedly isn't bad. I have been with them since Reader was shut down.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by dmd on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:32AM (#12547570)

That's precisely the point. It should compete on its own merits.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by doodpants on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:34AM (#12547978)

I think danohu's point was that with branding, it's hard to stand out in the crowded Google messaging space.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by nkozyra on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @08:41AM (#12547628)

Two easy ways to stand out:

1. Brand 2. Money

If they took this approach it would require a much more concerted marketing strategy.

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by BEEdwards on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:32AM (#12547960)

Well they happen to be in the marketing business so...

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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by 7Z7 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:39AM (#12548026)

Google/Alphabet are not in the marketing business. In fact they have pretty awful marketing. They are in the displaying ads business.

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