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It is a real opportunity missed for google. Slack/Teams is the current heart of company activities all over the world and Google only provides tens of similar c

by fxbois 7y ago

It is a real opportunity missed for google. Slack/Teams is the current heart of company activities all over the world and Google only provides tens of similar chat tools. They should really communicate about this.

pfranz 7y ago
Google is so big I'm sure they had their own ups and downs. I see so many school districts doubling down on Google Classroom--the district may have used it previously, but were now adding accounts for Kindergarteners. While Google usage is way up, ad buys dropped like a rock.
- ian0 7y ago
  Can confirm classroom is seeing huge adoption in SEA too
vowelless 7y ago
Have you tried Hangouts lately? Google needs to kill that whole product line.
- moooo99 7y ago
  I never understood how a company like Google constantly tries to build a decent chat app but never succeeds. They have so much software developers, they own the biggest ad-network worldwide and the majority of mobile phones runs their operating system with their appstore and default apps. They are the biggest email provider as well iirc. How can you fail so miserably with building a chat app when you're in such a starting position?!
  - Cthulhu_ 7y ago
    > They have so much software developers That answers your question TBH; I'm sure that every week, a team in Google goes "Let's use our 20% time to make a NEW chat app, only better!", and every year or so, one of those experiments makes it to the board who goes "Yeah this is the best thing ever, let's kill <yesterday's chat app> in favor of this!" I feel like it's down to a lack of focus as a company on the one side, and too much of a shift in focus on the other. What they should do (IMO) is to capitalize on that shift from Google to Alphabet and create a sub-company dedicated to chat, instead of leaving it to whatever organizational structure Google itself has. Make it their primary reason for existing instead of "a project a team within Google happens to be working on at the moment" (caveat: this is based entirely on a very superficial view of Google and how things are organized internally. I'm sure there's a whole floor or building dedicated to one project. Probably not Hangouts though, that product is 'done' and all they do now is keeping it alive, maybe some support for paying customers)
  - jlokier 7y ago
    What do Googlers themselves use for company chat?
    - discordance 7y ago
      Gsuite - Hangouts Meet
      - sdoering 7y ago
        Actually quite a dezent tool for group video calls (imho).
    - mderazon 7y ago
      Hangouts Chat ? But that product is so bad that I highly doubt it

by fxbois 7y ago

pfranz 7y ago

Google is so big I'm sure they had their own ups and downs. I see so many school districts doubling down on Google Classroom--the district may have used it previously, but were now adding accounts for Kindergarteners. While Google usage is way up, ad buys dropped like a rock.

ian0 7y ago
Can confirm classroom is seeing huge adoption in SEA too

vowelless 7y ago

Have you tried Hangouts lately? Google needs to kill that whole product line.

moooo99 7y ago
I never understood how a company like Google constantly tries to build a decent chat app but never succeeds. They have so much software developers, they own the biggest ad-network worldwide and the majority of mobile phones runs their operating system with their appstore and default apps. They are the biggest email provider as well iirc. How can you fail so miserably with building a chat app when you're in such a starting position?!
- Cthulhu_ 7y ago
  > They have so much software developers That answers your question TBH; I'm sure that every week, a team in Google goes "Let's use our 20% time to make a NEW chat app, only better!", and every year or so, one of those experiments makes it to the board who goes "Yeah this is the best thing ever, let's kill <yesterday's chat app> in favor of this!" I feel like it's down to a lack of focus as a company on the one side, and too much of a shift in focus on the other. What they should do (IMO) is to capitalize on that shift from Google to Alphabet and create a sub-company dedicated to chat, instead of leaving it to whatever organizational structure Google itself has. Make it their primary reason for existing instead of "a project a team within Google happens to be working on at the moment" (caveat: this is based entirely on a very superficial view of Google and how things are organized internally. I'm sure there's a whole floor or building dedicated to one project. Probably not Hangouts though, that product is 'done' and all they do now is keeping it alive, maybe some support for paying customers)
- jlokier 7y ago
  What do Googlers themselves use for company chat?
  - discordance 7y ago
    Gsuite - Hangouts Meet
    - sdoering 7y ago
      Actually quite a dezent tool for group video calls (imho).
  - mderazon 7y ago
    Hangouts Chat ? But that product is so bad that I highly doubt it