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Apparently GChat was only a colloquial term for the product formerly known as Google Talk? I thought it was a separate thing from the Talk VoIP service.
by ilikehurdles 7y ago
Apparently GChat was only a colloquial term for the product formerly known as Google Talk? I thought it was a separate thing from the Talk VoIP service.
- joecool1029 7y agoNah, it was official: http://web.archive.org/web/20171019144317/https://support.google.com/chat/?visit_id=0-636440209968187729-1799606958&rd=1 http://web.archive.org/web/20171019144317/https://support.go... The Wikipedia disambiguation page really clears up the mess that is Google's branding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chat
- ilikehurdles 7y agoGood to know I'm not going crazy. Maybe being gaslighted by wikipedia editors but that's not out of the ordinary. The Wikipedia entry for Google Talk[1], says: > Google Talk, also known as Google Chat,[1] was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication.[2] The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users.[3] What a mess. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk
- casefields 7y agoI wish they would put a "Messaging Czar" in charge with completely authority, to fix that mess. They know their target is iMessage and WhatsApp, yet don't seem to coalesce around any product in particular. Are they too scared of regulators to make an iMessage-like service in Android? RCS will barely nibble at the ground they need to cover in order to compete for real.
- fossuser 7y agoEven the disambiguation page is missing Google Buzz which existed for a brief time somewhere in there.
- nl 7y agoGoogle Buzz was a social network, not a video service.