Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to Allo, double down on RCS

Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by privateSFacct on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:00PM (#16886483)

Yep - what's weird is gtalk used to work pretty well even in business context. Then they went the crazy forced google+ route (I actually liked google+, but they just kept jamming it everywhere - even youtube seemed to want to force a linked google+ profile - it was unusable) and started blowing up how chat worked over and over. Where these things linked? Google talk / hangouts seems to have started going down with the whole crazy google+ mess.

Over to slack we go (which works fine).

I like imessage etc - little to no spam. I'll be curious how this carrier controlled approach will handle spammers.

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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by agumonkey on Friday April 20, 2018 @01:36PM (#16886776)

I wonder how often they get internal suggestions to kill google+ which get vetoed out of brand pride.

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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by 314 on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:03PM (#16887035)

You can’t kill that which is already dead.

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Re:Google changes its messaging strategy again: Goodbye to A... by wcunning on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:11PM (#16887102)

" Thou canst not kill that which doth not live. But you can blast it into chunky kibbles. " -- Quake Manual, describing Zombies.

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