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no, they bought a company called Grand Central in 2007 and re-branded it as Voice. This was well before Fi. A couple of the key players from GC left to form Ube
by mark212 10y ago
no, they bought a company called Grand Central in 2007 and re-branded it as Voice. This was well before Fi. A couple of the key players from GC left to form Uber Conference in 2012 which was then rebranded as Dialpad with backing from Google Ventures.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/inventor-of-google-voice-now-reinventing-conference-calls/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/21/inventor-of-google-voice-n...
- fader 10y agoThey also stripped out many of the amazing features from Grand Central and then left Google Voice to rot for years, slowly degrading. How they handled Voice (and so many other services) has moved me from being a huge Google fan to someone who immediately starts looking for a replacement when Google buys a company whose services I use. It's almost a guarantee that they'll lose interest in running a service once something else new and shiny comes along.