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Should have bought WhatsApp, and fitted it with Gmail search features.

• bogota 5y ago
  If they had done this no one would be using WhatsApp today. Google has shown they don’t understand and can’t get chat right.
  • B1FF_PSUVM 5y ago
    Yeah, well, I was thinking of leaving the free-SMS-maybe-with-pics thing well enough alone and just letting you find "Chris aluminum siding" items ... Might be worth a few cents for their advertising side-business, I dunno.
  • archontes 5y ago
    I was enthused for wave. Too bad.
• crossroadsguy 5y ago
  Nope, WhatsApp works just on phone number, not an email. It would have given them perpetual anxiety. So they would have made WhatsApp work only with “Gmail” addresses instead - with Google Login and in a Chrome Desktop app only (of course) - and they’d have then shut it down after few years. Or people might have stopped using it before the shutdown.
  • lupire 5y ago
    The G+ login nonsense all happened in response to Facebook and Messenger (and iMessage). Before that, Chat was open XMPP.
• asd88 5y ago
  Then just kill it after a few years