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What exactly was the end-user problem in the messaging space that Google was attempting to solve with Allo?
by roymurdock 10y ago
What exactly was the end-user problem in the messaging space that Google was attempting to solve with Allo?
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- yoz-y 10y agoGoogle did not have a messenger app based on telephone numbers for directory. This method has revealed to be the one that users choose to, rather than hunting for friends using e-mail addresses. However, Allo is just a Nth iteration of the same thing with a vague promise of cool features through the assistant.
- Fricken 10y agoGoogle assistant. It's designed to streamline the problem of 5 friends trying to decide where to eat brunch on a sunday morning over sms, or anything kind of on the fly logistical problem like that. They do make this pretty apparent in their presentations. I don't know, man. I've been waiting since I was a kid to see AI, and finally some rough approximation of sci-fi grade AI is starting to materialize. But everywhere in the internet all I hear is 'It's dumb... Who cares... Google doesn't know what they're doing' I don't know, is me being continually amazed by the services Google offers some kind of character flaw or something? I don't understand.