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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by deong on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:25AM (#12549043)
Sure, but wouldn't you have also made that bet about Hangouts a few years ago? And then about Messenger? And then about Hangouts (again)? Google always looks like they have a plan, provided you ignore everything they've done prior to about 10 minutes ago.
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Re:Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app by Navarr on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:35AM (#12549149)
Hangouts came with SMS and Desktop, iirc - as it was supposed to be an immediately migration from Google Talk. It then later got Google Voice, later got MMS, continued to "improve" (feature wise - but was terrible)

Messenger - if you're referring to the Android app - was just an SMS app from the start and nobody expected anything more from it

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