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You'd think they'd force every android phone to have it, and then bake it into the dialer. It's doing the whatsapp thing of using your phone number as your acco
by mavhc 7y ago
You'd think they'd force every android phone to have it, and then bake it into the dialer. It's doing the whatsapp thing of using your phone number as your account, because people realised most people can't sign into accounts to save their life.
Android dialer should have Start Voice Call, Start Video Call, and Start Group Call, where only the first one uses ye olde voice network
- mav3rick 7y agoIt is baked in the Dialer.
- mavhc 7y agoThat only pixel phones use. I mean force it onto every phone like I assume gmail is. Only way to get mass adoption
- thu2111 7y agoPixel phones at least do have it. I use it sometimes with my girlfriend because the video quality is higher and because it runs on my laptop, so I can use a bigger screen when at home. But WhatsApp also offers video chat and she defaults to using that because our conversations (when apart) start with text chat, and WhatsApp works fine too. Basically, Duo suffers from being only video chat. I don't know why Google can't make a WhatsApp competitor that's good. I think the problem is it's never had a CEO that really cared about this product category so it flails around, dominated by professional product managers who don't have any burning innovative idea (unlike when WhatsApp was new and the big idea was to use phone numbers instead of user names).
- ProZsolt 7y agoHere in the UK you can use Messages[0](the default SMS app) for chat. It supports RCS. You can send pictures, emojis or even use for group chat. [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... Current availability: Chat features in your Messages app are available in France, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, the UK and the US, and across multiple operators globally. We are working on bringing chat features broadly to more regions, operators and other messaging apps (e.g. Samsung Messages).
- tssva 7y agoAnd Duo is integrated with Messages. You can launch a Duo video call within a Messages conversation.
- coldpie 7y agoBack when Duo launched, Google force-shipped it to my phone. I saw the notification, laughed out loud at the idea that I'd ever start using a new Google product, and never thought about it again.