The bigger obstacle, of course, for Google is that Messages and RCS exists. I don’t think the company has ever laid out the difference between the two products or when you’d use one over the other.
And, yet again, we see the launch of another Google product that will shut it’s doors soon.
It’s unfortunate. I’m hesitant toward adopting any Google apps and services these days out of fear it’ll be shuttered or drastically changed. I miss having Google Photos and Drive linked up!
Yeah, their Google Photos free forever stunt put me off Google services. These days, I’ve taken my contact, and calendar syncing on a self-hosted Nextcloud instance. My notes have shifted from Google to Nextcloud Notes. For Photos, Nextcloud Photos is unfortunately not up to par, so I have a Photoprism instance set up to provide the same functionality, but under my control.
If at all possible, you should definitely give Nextcloud a try!
Come now Google, fool me once etc…
…at least for another couple if months before it’s killed.
In Iran everybody is using Google Meet for video calls and everyone is wondering why it doesn’t have messaging support!
Yes, it saw a surge in popularity after last year’s protests as the government blocked Whatsapp. Telegram had already been blocked. For messaging most people still use telegram with proxies and VPNs.
Do folks have access to Signal? It’s too bad it doesn’t support E2E SMS encryption anymore like it did as TextSecure. I think there are forks though.
Nice try! 😂
They’ve thrown so much advocacy capital into the wind that at this point they need to offer something more than - hey look, there’s a product you can use.
