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Also Allo and Buzz, plus chatting with other editors in Docs. SMS through Voice also integrated into Talk/Chat/Hangouts at various points. If they had put an e
by delecti 4y ago
Also Allo and Buzz, plus chatting with other editors in Docs. SMS through Voice also integrated into Talk/Chat/Hangouts at various points.
If they had put an even remotely competent person (who cares about more than just getting promoted) in charge and they could have been a leading player the space by just keeping things clear enough to follow.
- colechristensen 4y agoIt is clearly the result of the internal structure of Google where no one in charge is seemingly that interested in producing cohesive products, there is apparently a kind of internal competitive economy which results in this and other nonsense.
- IceWreck 4y agoYoutube Chat and Google Maps chat too
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoWhy the heck would Google Maps have chat??
- pooper 4y agoWaze has (or has had) beep beep as long as I can remember but nobody questions why Waze has chat...
- petre 4y agoSo you can text while in a traffic jam and probably hit the car in front if you?
- vagrantJin 4y agoAsk for directions? ba dum tssss.
- cuteboy19 4y agoYou can send IMs via GPay. There was even a short lived "groups" option
- erik_seaberg 4y agoOne of my favorite quotes about this was “Easily the most doomed section of this entire article, even Google Stadia has a messaging service.”