Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down17
arrow-up1129arrow-down1external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up84·11 months agonot like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
minus-squareSabata11792@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·11 months agoAt 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.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoMove to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoInstant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoThe golden opportunity was when Hangouts was the default SMS app on Android. The same technique has been very successful for Apple.
minus-squareJakeroxs@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI still can’t understand why they killed hangouts
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.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
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