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If you look at Google's messaging products timeline, it's an embarrassing mess. If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progres
by abider 5y ago
If you look at Google's messaging products timeline, it's an embarrassing mess. If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progress.
I've never seen such a careless disregard for a user base combined with the cognitive dissonance of new product releases. Hangouts, Duo, etc aren't circling the drain, they're already in the sewer.
May the original Gchat (with open APIs) rest in peace.
- akoster 5y ago> If you viewed it in reverse-chronological order, it actually looks like progress. You are far from alone: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-... > … they're already in the sewer. Sadly they still don’t know it on this front https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-androi... Though at least on the payments front they are attempting to acknowledge reality instead of passing blame?https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-pay-hopes-to-recover-from-brutal-2021-with-new-leadership/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-pay-hopes-to-...