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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Messages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Messages Web support was released in 2018

theturtletalks 3y ago
Yes, but the wiki is referencing this BI article[0]. Here is the relevant excerpt saying it was bad at first and people were missing messages: >> At launch, Messages for web wasn't very good. It worked, but it wasn't very reliable. Several texts didn't send properly, and I missed a bunch of text messages, too. It clearly wasn't the solution that would bring the iMessage functionality to the Android ecosystem, and I gave it up pretty quickly. >> Fast forward to late 2019 when I recently started using Messages for web again, and I can gleefully report that it's actually pretty good now. I can send and receive photos, videos, GIFs, emoji, sticker, and good old-fashioned text messages, as well as group messages almost entirely reliably. There's only been a couple instances where a message didn't send, but I'm attributing that to the fact that I have Messages on at least a half-dozen computers at the moment. It took more than a year before this feature worked properly. I don't even see the point in Google working on messaging apps anymore. They lost the battle to Whatsapp that had web working way before. 0. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-messages-for-web-how-to-android-imessage-2019-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-messages-for-web-how-...
- eitally 3y ago
  Fwiw, if you're using SMS still and on purpose, the Messages app is as good as it gets. It is actually pleasurable to use, and there are a lot of cases where trying to get friends/acquaintances to identify the right 3rd party messaging app to use (where inevitably at least one has to install something new), Messages is a great option. To be completely clear, I am impressed with how well Google has evolved the remaining Comms apps (Meet, Chat, Messages) over the past three years -- especially Meet & Messages. Considering where things stood five years ago, it's been an epiphany.

theturtletalks 3y ago

Yes, but the wiki is referencing this BI article[0]. Here is the relevant excerpt saying it was bad at first and people were missing messages: >> At launch, Messages for web wasn't very good. It worked, but it wasn't very reliable. Several texts didn't send properly, and I missed a bunch of text messages, too. It clearly wasn't the solution that would bring the iMessage functionality to the Android ecosystem, and I gave it up pretty quickly. >> Fast forward to late 2019 when I recently started using Messages for web again, and I can gleefully report that it's actually pretty good now. I can send and receive photos, videos, GIFs, emoji, sticker, and good old-fashioned text messages, as well as group messages almost entirely reliably. There's only been a couple instances where a message didn't send, but I'm attributing that to the fact that I have Messages on at least a half-dozen computers at the moment. It took more than a year before this feature worked properly. I don't even see the point in Google working on messaging apps anymore. They lost the battle to Whatsapp that had web working way before. 0. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-messages-for-web-how-to-android-imessage-2019-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-messages-for-web-how-...

eitally 3y ago
Fwiw, if you're using SMS still and on purpose, the Messages app is as good as it gets. It is actually pleasurable to use, and there are a lot of cases where trying to get friends/acquaintances to identify the right 3rd party messaging app to use (where inevitably at least one has to install something new), Messages is a great option. To be completely clear, I am impressed with how well Google has evolved the remaining Comms apps (Meet, Chat, Messages) over the past three years -- especially Meet & Messages. Considering where things stood five years ago, it's been an epiphany.