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I really liked Hangouts with SMS inside of Gmail. With Google Fi you also had calls in there. Everything in Gmail! Of course it was too good to be true. Google
by etaioinshrdlu 5y ago
I really liked Hangouts with SMS inside of Gmail. With Google Fi you also had calls in there. Everything in Gmail!
Of course it was too good to be true. Google taketh away.
I can understand poor design choices from a engineering heavy org - but why do the products get technically worse (less featureful, less integrated) over time?
I suspect there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoIt's new upper managers throwing out their predecessor's work to mark their territory with a fresh start. Messaging app users are not the customer so normal business rules of engagement do not apply.
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoBut I was a paying customer of Google Fi, and these features were advertised to me before I signed up.
- naturalauction 5y agoYou could do the same with Google Voice. Send and recieve calls and texts all inside of Gmail. I have no idea why Google got rid of this functionality.
- xnx 5y agoHaving a single inbox like this is the one true way. There are so many forces fighting for their own proprietary messaging systems that I fear we're still years away from this happening again. Though it's popular to malign email, I'm very thankful that it's a distributed, open, standardized system, with decades of stability that allows me to message anyone.