> Google Duo is what replaced it for video chat
We were also supposed to get chat with Google Allo but they practically killed it before launch.
> Before launch, Google touted strong privacy in the app, with particular emphasis on messages stored "transiently and in non-identifiable form". However, at launch, privacy was significantly rolled back, with Google keeping logs of messages indefinitely (or until the user deletes messages) in an effort to improve the app's "smart reply" feature.
Re:Google says iMessage is too powerful
by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:16PM
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I did not use it and did not know anyone who did... glad to hear it did have some users after all.
The 'internet chat' they introduced a different service called 'Chat' which runs in some consumer version of Google Workspaces.
I also really hate XML based chat, but the OG standard failed because the federated clients had a poor required minimum standard for interoperability and other stacks E.G. Microsoft's whatever version of it ... I actually forget offhand but it was something anti-competitive that also broke how useful it was outside of their particular implementation.