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tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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[–] Sooperstition@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How long until they close down the Google Chat app and move to something else that is barely different?

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is Google's biggest problem, I think. They're so flaky on their products and services, I find myself not wanting to bother trying things out in case they don't become popular enough for Google to maintain. I saw a lot of the same remarks about Stadia, and though I seem to remember Google assuring Stadia was playing the long game, well, we see how that played out.

[–] zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Stadia really needed to be a monthly subscription model rather than asking people to buy games on Stadia.

Nobody wanted to buy in to a Google platform, but I might've signed up for a month and had a look.

[–] nihilx7E3@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

probably about a week, give or take