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I don’t even know what messaging service/app google uses NOW, and I use google and gmail every day
by micromacrofoot 5y ago
I don’t even know what messaging service/app google uses NOW, and I use google and gmail every day
- zamadatix 5y agoGoogle Chat, it actually loads on the sidebar of gmail unless you disable it... though I can't blame you for never noticing/caring.
- Gigachad 5y agoWe are going to need a full diagram to explain what the google chat app is. From what I remember it goes Google Talk Google Voice Google Wave Google Buzz Google Hangouts Allo / Duo Hangouts Meet / Hangouts Chat Google Meet / Google Chat
- easrng 5y agoCurrently there's +----------+-------------+------------------------+-------------+ | | Audio Calls | Messaging | Video Calls | +----------+-------------+------------------------+-------------+ | Consumer | Duo | Messages (SMS/RCS), | Duo | | | | Hangouts | | +----------+-------------+------------------------+-------------+ | Business | Voice | Chat (Formerly | Meet | | | | Hangouts Chat), Voice | | +----------+-------------+------------------------+-------------+ Business products are available for consumers too, but with limitations. (For example, consumers can't make bots for Chat.) Hangouts is almost gone, starting a video call just makes a Meet and sends the link as a message, the messaging still works but has been folded into Chat (They interop for now at least.) so there's no reason to keep Hangouts on anymore really. Meet is for larger meetings, Duo is mostly for one-on-one calls but has group support now too. Chat is basically a Slack clone. Messages is Google's SMS/MMS/RCS app for Android and it requires an Android phone with an active phone plan but it has a web interface for composing messages on your computer. Voice does phone calls, voicemail, and SMS and MMS with a number from Google, and is separate from Messages. I don't think Voice can do RCS which is odd considering how their pushing it on Android.
- whydoyoucare 5y agoThat is one thing that I absolutely dislike -- sticking everything as a part of one big browser. I prefer individual apps that I can control separately, than use a monolithic application. :-(
- zamadatix 5y agoYou can, Chat has its own full page that loads when you click it from the apps menu and you can disable the sidebar in Gmail in the settings. The same was true of GTalk/Hangouts before Chat
- exhilaration 5y agoI work for a Shopify company and we're a self-described "Google shop", meaning we use Gmail/docs/drive/meet but our messaging app is Slack. That shows you how much Google has failed with messaging. My previous employer was UPS, a top to bottom Microsoft shop, and they were in the process of switching from Skype for Business (Lync) to Microsoft Teams when I left. Even Microsoft has done a better job with their messaging option.
- square_usual 5y agoI honestly prefer Google Worskpace's Chat to MS Teams by a mile. It's intuitive, the threading model is way better than Teams (which hides messages by default! Seriously, who thought that was a good idea?) and it integrates well with GSuite. In my org there are still holdouts who prefer using it over Slack.
- drcongo 5y agoI didn't know Google Workspace had chat until I read this comment, and we use Google Workspace.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoI don’t know how you can miss it, it’s built into Gmail’s interface.
- drcongo 5y agoI haven't had to deal with the horror of the Gmail interface in decades and I can't even imagine a reason to bother trying.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoPersonally I like it better than Outlook. I don’t have a choice anyway since my company disables IMAP/Exchange for security reasons.