Yeah. I don’t really think it’s better either. I just think it’ll fall flat on its face like Google’s many many previous attempts at messaging unless they actually tell people it exists.
The worst part is that Google Messages once was pretty good, actually. Supported a wide range of clients and even interoperated with XMPP servers in a limited way.
Their Hangouts app was actually not that bad to use! Until it became slow and laggy for some reason. They could easily have gone full iMessage and included an XMPP client in their Android messenger! Samsung could’ve reused the same code with their own servers as well! Oh, the things we could’ve had.
But no, Google had to go through five different messaging and video calling apps instead. They dropped the ball, kicked it by accident, and keep kicking it right when they bend over to pick it back up again.
Yeah. I don’t really think it’s better either. I just think it’ll fall flat on its face like Google’s many many previous attempts at messaging unless they actually tell people it exists.
The worst part is that Google Messages once was pretty good, actually. Supported a wide range of clients and even interoperated with XMPP servers in a limited way.
Their Hangouts app was actually not that bad to use! Until it became slow and laggy for some reason. They could easily have gone full iMessage and included an XMPP client in their Android messenger! Samsung could’ve reused the same code with their own servers as well! Oh, the things we could’ve had.
But no, Google had to go through five different messaging and video calling apps instead. They dropped the ball, kicked it by accident, and keep kicking it right when they bend over to pick it back up again.