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Google's messaging mess continues: Chat app now wants to be the next WhatsApp (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
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[–] carbotect@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?

Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.

Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:

Android SMS

Bump!

Cloud to Device Messaging

Chat (not the same as Google Chat)

Disco

Dodgeball

Firebase Cloud Messaging

Gizmo5

Gmail

GTalkService

Google+

Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)

Google+ Messenger

Google.com/talk

Google Allo

Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)

Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)

Google Buzz

Google Chat

Google Cloud Messaging

Google Docs

Google Docs Editor Chat

Google Duo

Google Fi

Google Friend Connect

Google Groups

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts Chat

Google Hangouts Meet

Google Helpouts

Google Huddle

Google Latitude

Google Maps Messages

Google Meet

Google Messenger SMS

Google Pay Messages

Google Phone Messaging

Google Photos Messages

Google Schemer

Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)

Google Stadia Messages

Google Talk

Google Voice

Google Voice Legacy

Google Voice Third-party Apps

Google Voice for G Suite

Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)

Google Wave

GrandCentral Communications

Jaiku

Jibe Mobile

Meebo

Messages

Orkut

Postini

Slide

Sparrow

YouTube Messages
[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Was Google Fi actually ever a messaging app? It's a phone service now

[–] balder1991@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m pretty sure the employees working on it don’t have a say on it. Someone at the top decided to do it and they just have to pretend they believe on it because they have to be “team players”.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!

[–] philodendron@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] huskerDude@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I'm gonna sit this one out.

[–] zorrothefox2001@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Me and my ex thought Hangouts was going to be discontinued so we switched to Allo, and then back to Hangouts lmfao

[–] captainnapalm83@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This is also me. After Allo's demise, I moved everyone to WhatsApp. Aside from being a Mera product now, it was a good choice.

[–] Kyle@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ouch, I'm so sorry. I had already been bitten by the Google graveyard then so I actively avoided allo.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Have not bothered with new Google products in years as I assume they will be shutdown by the end of the year.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Use encrypted messaging instead.

[–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t seen a company with as much as delirium as Google does.

[–] dmon@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It blows my mind that Google still can’t get an iMessage equivalent to stick.. I just don’t get why they wouldn’t care about messaging/communication experience on phones, seems like they’ve been scrambling for over 10 years to get this right, over multiple apps.

A lot of people only use an iPhone because of iMessage, which is a lot more fun to use, and is exclusive to the ecosystem

[–] copium@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m bored that’s like the thousand time Google does something, undo it and make it again. Wake me up when for once they make a successful product.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, now it actually has been years since they had a new chat app

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

This one will surely stick!

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