or they're trying to turn (g)mail into a shitty, high-latency, unreliable alternative to imessage.
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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 1 year agohahah thats exactly what this is. they got caught with their pants down on slack and now theyll never get market share.
ares35@kbin.social 1 year ago
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still sounds better than iMessage 🤷♂️
vinniep@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The bit that kills me is that “make Google Chat not suck” doesn’t seem to be in the list of options for addressing this problem at all. I work for a company that uses GSuite and chat is universally loathed with a bunch of Slack instances running around the company, both sanctioned and unsanctioned. If they spent time working to improve chat, the momentum of being a GSuite company would carry the rest of the weight here. It doesn’t have to be better than Slack, just closer.