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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by kyrra on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:33AM (#16885060)
There are 2 front page stories about Google messaging strategy, both of which were spawned from TheVerge article[0][1] that was posted last night that didn't get as much traction then. Google gave them an exclusive interview and they put together a well detailed piece that is talking about what Google is doing around messaging and why.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881497

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-m...

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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by ocdtrekkie on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:46AM (#16885175)
FWIW, I'd much rather read a journalist's take on what Google is doing with messaging than a Google PR piece from a site which mostly writes PR pieces.[1] But there's probably good cause for multiple threads on the topic to be merged together.

[1]Mostly when a company does exclusive interviews with a site, you should be very skeptical of anything that site says on the matter. Especially if they have a design team making custom animations and such for said exclusive article.

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Re:Google gives up on Google Allo by Sgt_Apone on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:55AM (#16885258)
The Ars piece is much better researched than the one written by The Verge. In the latter case they seem to make it like RCS is a wholly Google project when its in fact a GSMA thing with several RCS solution providers.
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