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Would anything get you to use Google Chat with friends? (9to5google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Is this a rhetorical question? 😂

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Maybe if they reintroduced hangouts and let me:

make phone calls
make phone phone calls with Google voice
make voice chats
send sms messages
send sms messages with Google voice
send chat messages
make video calls
permit all those options (except native sms) from Gmail, the desktop app, and the dedicated webpage
collate my conversation with people among all the communications methods listed

I'd be tempted to use them again. It amazes me that they made an app that encompassed basically every modern form of individual communication laid out in a clear understandable manner and they just thought it would be better if every feature they offered were it's own app. Now I have to remember which medium I used to talk with somebody and use an app with fewer features.

I miss hangouts.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

add faxing

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Hangouts was peak Google messaging. It was iMessage before iMessage. I don't know if it necessarily came first, but all my friends who have iPhones and use iMessage now used to use Hangouts on Android. I think Google has a huge opportunity to be the popular brand and lost it.

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Man those were the days. I still use Voice and have years of messages in there, I dread the day they cancel it and I need to find something else.