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Personally, I will miss Hangouts more than Allo, and RCS is not an direct replacement for Hangouts either. One thing I hate about Allo is its use of phone numbe
by unsignedint 8y ago
Personally, I will miss Hangouts more than Allo, and RCS is not an direct replacement for Hangouts either. One thing I hate about Allo is its use of phone number as user ID, so the same goes for RCS.
Just because I'm willing to chat with someone really doesn't mean I am willing to provide phone numbers to them.
Edit: Repeated Allo, where I meant RCS.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Personally, I will miss Hangouts more than Allo, and RCS is not an direct replacement for Hangouts either. The replacement for Hangouts is more Hangouts, not RCS (that is, per the article, Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet are being opened to consumers next year, and are the official replacement for Hangouts classic for consumers, just as they already were for enterprise.) > One thing I hate about Allo is its use of phone number as user ID, so the same goes for Allo. I assume one of these Allos is supposed to be RCS?
- Raidion 8y agoI agree, I'm of the opinion "hangouts" isn't dead. I don't see them removing a chat option from gmail. So far, they've pretty much kept the consumer and enterprise gmail experience the same. I feel like Google knows that just setting an if(enterprise) and hiding hangouts in gmail would just piss a LOT of people off, so I full expect them to find the brand with the best available and flexible tech stack, and just merge hangouts and whatever else into one thing that they'll call something different but will still be mostly the same, in the exact same spot in gmail.