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They forgot about Inbox! After following this nonsense product timeline for 16 years from the original Google Talk days, my last chat thread still using Hangou

They forgot about Inbox! After following this nonsense product timeline for 16 years from the original Google Talk days, my last chat thread still using Hangouts moved to Facebook Messenger. chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024.

0x0EB0DA10 5y ago
Isn't Inbox just an email client? > chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024. I doubt it. Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype.
- sahkopoyta 5y ago
  >Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype. Yeah, at our company we have actually used Google Chat somewhat succesfully as main tool for internal communication
  - mrweasel 5y ago
    We do to, the main feature is you’re able to start a quick meeting on Google Meet. Google Chat gets the job done, no one really enjoy using it, but it mostly just works. They could improve Chat a lot if they just cared to do native clients. Seriously, how many developers would that require? Like three for macOS, and the same for Windows and Linux?
- dudus 5y ago
  This comment is funny because Skype was killed in favour of Teams.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
    And Skype for Business was a rebranded/maybe-modified Lync... not sure whether that counts for more or less continuity.
- coremoff 5y ago
  it sat on top of gmail, yes, but felt like a different product. Much cleaner interface, and it integrated things like reminders and "upcoming trips" and things like that in the email feed. I much preferred it to gmail, and I was not happy when they discontinued it
mr_o47 5y ago
I remember using it. I actually preferred using Inbox over Gmail as it was so good then they decided to kill that app
chakhs 5y ago
wow chat.google.com looks very bad in comparison to slack or teams

0x0EB0DA10 5y ago

Isn't Inbox just an email client? > chat.google.com is just aggressively worse in far too many ways, and will surely be killed circa 2024. I doubt it. Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype.

sahkopoyta 5y ago
>Google Chat is Google's enterprise product offering like Microsoft's skype. Yeah, at our company we have actually used Google Chat somewhat succesfully as main tool for internal communication
- mrweasel 5y ago
  We do to, the main feature is you’re able to start a quick meeting on Google Meet. Google Chat gets the job done, no one really enjoy using it, but it mostly just works. They could improve Chat a lot if they just cared to do native clients. Seriously, how many developers would that require? Like three for macOS, and the same for Windows and Linux?
dudus 5y ago
This comment is funny because Skype was killed in favour of Teams.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  And Skype for Business was a rebranded/maybe-modified Lync... not sure whether that counts for more or less continuity.
coremoff 5y ago
it sat on top of gmail, yes, but felt like a different product. Much cleaner interface, and it integrated things like reminders and "upcoming trips" and things like that in the email feed. I much preferred it to gmail, and I was not happy when they discontinued it

mr_o47 5y ago

I remember using it. I actually preferred using Inbox over Gmail as it was so good then they decided to kill that app

chakhs 5y ago

wow chat.google.com looks very bad in comparison to slack or teams