This seems to be where the "backing off" claim is coming from: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11699122/google-allo-messaging-app-announced-io-2016 http://ww

This seems to be where the "backing off" claim is coming from: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11699122/google-allo-messaging-app-announced-io-2016 http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11699122/google-allo-messa... > First, all conversations are encrypted "on the wire," which means that nobody on the internet can read them as you send your message. They are read by Google's servers, but Kay assures me that the data is stored "transiently," which is to say that Google doesn't keep your chat logs around to be subpoenaed. And Fulay adds that Google doesn't assign identity to the chat logs on those servers even then. I think this is a misunderstanding -- either on the part of the authors or from the Google employees on understanding the question asked by the authors. Kay probably meant that in Incognito mode, messages are stored transiently. I don't believe that has changed, has it? Did Google really say that non-Incognito messages would not be stored server-side? What happens if you lose your phone -- do you lose all your Allo chat history? That would be a really shitty user experience.