• ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle… Some of them even integrated with Gmail.

    Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won’t vanish in a year exist.

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        1 year ago

        I feel like everyone who knew enough to know about Allo was also acutely aware that Google would probably kill it, and it would really suck to move friends to an app that’s just gonna join the graveyard with the dozen others

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          1 year ago

          Makes sense, I just got my first android and that happen to be the app that Google was promoting heavily at the time

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          1 year ago

          No, it came after Google Talk (XMPP) and was in fact based on the same protocol. The new thing it brought was live updates, so you could see other people typing, and it also had different types of content, not just text.

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      1 year ago

      Hangouts still works. I believe it’s their longest running chat app.