Wait 6 months and Google will announce Chat is discontinued, as they integrate messaging functionality into a YouTube Music subscription!
Stop giving them ideas goddammit
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/06/youtube-music-comments-now-playing/
Is there any better example of Google’s lack of long term vision than their chat apps?
I’m one of the morons who convinced my friends and family to switch to Allo. I’m gonna sit this one out.
I don’t get it. Are Google employees completely ignoring all the negative press their messaging apps get?
Everyone online agrees, that all these messaging apps that Google keeps pumping, just hurt each other.
Here is a list of every messaging app that Google has ever produced:
Android SMS
Bump!
Cloud to Device Messaging
Chat (not the same as Google Chat)
Disco
Dodgeball
Firebase Cloud Messaging
Gizmo5
Gmail
GTalkService
Google+
Google+ Hangouts (not the same as Google Hangouts)
Google+ Messenger
Google.com/talk
Google Allo
Google Assistant (it really did once have its own text feature)
Google Assistant Messages (and then this but only in a family group)
Google Buzz
Google Chat
Google Cloud Messaging
Google Docs
Google Docs Editor Chat
Google Duo
Google Fi
Google Friend Connect
Google Groups
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts Chat
Google Hangouts Meet
Google Helpouts
Google Huddle
Google Latitude
Google Maps Messages
Google Meet
Google Messenger SMS
Google Pay Messages
Google Phone Messaging
Google Photos Messages
Google Schemer
Google Spaces (this was basically Google's version of Instagram and it lasted less than a year)
Google Stadia Messages
Google Talk
Google Voice
Google Voice Legacy
Google Voice Third-party Apps
Google Voice for G Suite
Google Voice FXO VoIP Gateway (Obihai)
Google Wave
GrandCentral Communications
Jaiku
Jibe Mobile
Meebo
Messages
Orkut
Postini
Slide
Sparrow
YouTube Messages
I’m still salty about Google Inbox. Though I don’t use Google mail anymore.