Re:Google Hangouts Chat
by adamrezich on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:02PM
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Totally, but at some point aren't they polluting their A/B data by exhausting user confidence and diluting their own market too much? At one point I had both Duo and Allo (and Hangouts and Messages and Voice) installed on my phone, and I never found a use for either. Allo never provided a compelling use case for my everyday life, and why would I try and convince someone I know to install Duo just to try it out, aside from pure curiosity? I just don't understand what their endgame with all this is
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My experience with Duo is that the video chat quality is far better than Hangouts, especially on mobile devices and poor hotel wifi. Not sure what it's doing differently but I think it optimizes for lag-free video/audio vs quality.
Allo would have been nice as a plug-in for Hangouts. Maybe even an alternative GUI on phones.
Useless as a standalone service however.
Re:Google Hangouts Chat
by adamrezich on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:44PM
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Exactly! From the maybe five minutes I spent using Allo, it seemed like a totally fine messaging app with additional features. If Allo was released as the One True Google Messaging App (rolling in functionality of the other apps as well, i.e. Voice), REPLACING the others, I suppose people would've grumbled about change because change is scary, but I would've just been happy to have one Google messaging app on my phone again.