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-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
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