this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2023
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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