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From what I read, Allo didn't get much in the way of support from carriers and OEMs. Practically speaking, Google needs their support to get something in the ha
by Kalium 9y ago
From what I read, Allo didn't get much in the way of support from carriers and OEMs. Practically speaking, Google needs their support to get something in the hands of users.
Google has developed a habit of trying multiple approaches to any given thing, and keeping what's most successful. For definitions of "successful" that aren't always what the rest of us might expect.
- gknapp 9y agoI gave Allo an honest shot when it first came out – I was excited by its feature set, and I was hoping for a far improved messenger app. My first message went to my wife, who's on an iPhone. It was really difficult to suss out exactly how Allo wanted to handle this conversation... It seemed to both want to fallback to a default SMS while also trying to do some of the Google Assistant things, failing at both. There are certainly some countries where the vast majority of users are Android, but it seemed pretty unfathomable to me that they'd push a product that didn't function appropriately cross-platform.