not like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
At this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
Move to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
Instant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
The golden opportunity was when Hangouts was the default SMS app on Android. The same technique has been very successful for Apple.
I still can’t understand why they killed hangouts
Again…?
Seventh time’s the charm.
I’m so confident that Google is just reskinning the same messaging app
it’s not even IM this time, it’s just email with a different input
Yes that’s what Google needs. Another messenger service.
“Apple, please 😢, adopt rcs. We failed at our messaging apps😭now we need your help. EU, please tell apple to open up imessage 😟. It’s so unfair. If you don’t we’ll add instant messaging to Gmail”
Most miserable company ever.
2 months later…
This week in technology, Google abandons yet another project. 🤷🏻♂️
This and many other reasons not to use their products. I think more people would appreciate paying $5 or so a month for email that works without ads or invasions of privacy, in addition to avoiding the constant adjustments to Google-style ****ery.
finallly what google has been missing, an instant messenger application/protocol.
thanks google for really finding a gap and filling a need.
Google Talk flashbacks anyone?
The story’s older than that:
Google Wave?
Another potential to the google graveyard.
Gmail is a part of Google’s subscription plan. It won’t.
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They don’t even have a desktop app for gmail chat. Whatever they do, they’ll abandon.
No way I’m using a new Google product ever again
This is a feature available in outlook desktop application at least for Mac
The irony is of course that Gmail did used to be essentially an instant messenger until Google decided in their wisdom that on Android you should not be notified immediately you receive a message
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This is what I was wondering…the “chat” and “spaces” functions are already fully integrated into Gmail and are instant messaging. We used them extensively at my previous place of work. The article seems to be more about Google incentivizing chat-like responses to emails, which would be awful.
Just what a successful Google service needs, to be associated with the failure that is their messaging platform attempts.
Will they succeed in making even Gmail fail?
I can already see memes with the Gmail icon and the obvious “task failed successfully”You can react to emails with emoji right now. At least on Android.
Which at first I thought “thAts fucking dumb”
But now I can react 👍 instead of sending stupid, loathsome ‘Thanks!’ emails.
But what happens if someone sends you an email from a non-gmail account? Can you react then?
If so, does it just reply to this email with an emoji in the body? Cause then you’re basically just replying in the exact way as before, google just added a quick-reply button with a predefined body.
I’m personally not a fan of nonstandard functionality for something as ubiquitous as email. Email should be exactly the same regardless of the client that’s used.
They get an email that says “foggy@gmail reacted to your email with 👍”
XMPP/Jabber says hello. Remember how they used it but didn’t want to allow you to use another Jabber client?
What’s the problem with that? You can reply to any mail at your convenient time. It is not a telephone call.
