Comment on Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 year agoInstant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
Comment on Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 year agoInstant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The golden opportunity was when Hangouts was the default SMS app on Android. The same technique has been very successful for Apple.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I still can’t understand why they killed hangouts
Zak@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At the point they killed it, I do. It was an also-ran in the space with no strategy for growth. What I don’t understand is why they caved to pressure from carriers for an SMS-only app as mentioned in the article, or why they keep trying to launch new chat apps that offer no unique value proposition.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It just doesn’t make sense, it worked almost identically to apples iMessage when the person was also on Android, integrated nicely with Google Voice and they could have just implemented RCS, instead they made allo/duo, killed those off and now we have messages, which is fine but is just sms and RCS… Just seemed like such a waste of effort to do all of that when you already had a working product with integrations already built out.