it sat on top of gmail, yes, but felt like a different product. Much cleaner interface, and it integrated things like reminders and "upcoming trips" and things like that in the email feed.
I much preferred it to gmail, and I was not happy when they discontinued it
Re:Google’s Messaging Mess: A Timeline
by sahkopoyta on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @02:23AM
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>Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype.
Yeah, at our company we have actually used Google Chat somewhat succesfully as main tool for internal communication
We do to, the main feature is you’re able to start a quick meeting on Google Meet. Google Chat gets the job done, no one really enjoy using it, but it mostly just works.
They could improve Chat a lot if they just cared to do native clients. Seriously, how many developers would that require? Like three for macOS, and the same for Windows and Linux?
This comment is funny because Skype was killed in favour of Teams.
Re:Google’s Messaging Mess: A Timeline
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @03:25AM
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And Skype for Business was a rebranded/maybe-modified Lync... not sure whether that counts for more or less continuity.
> chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024.
I doubt it. Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype.