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You're saying you'd like SMS integration? So if you add your friend with a dumb phone to your Hangout, they can participate via SMS? That would be awesome. I h
by masnick 13y ago
You're saying you'd like SMS integration? So if you add your friend with a dumb phone to your Hangout, they can participate via SMS?
That would be awesome. I have a few friends with dumb phones that are constantly left out of iMessage conversations. I feel bad about it, but not bad enough to inconvenience myself (or pay for an SMS plan; yes I'm a terrible person).
Edit: The federation thing is probably a pipe dream. No one has an incentive for supporting a federated protocol -- at this point it's either existing platforms going for lock-in (the iOS lock-in caused by iMessages is huge; it's the biggest reason I don't consider Android). I guess what I really want is iMessages that works on Android and over SMS, and doesn't suck at syncing between devices.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoSure, that's one use of it. But also friends with smartphones but not Google+, those I communicate with by SMS or WhatsApp primarily at the moment, the majority of my contacts. It's not even that I want rid of my SMS plan, although I can definitely see the benefit of that too. We basically want the same thing - iMessages that works on Android, iOS and desktop, including SMS. Google are brilliant at sync and I have no doubts that'll work great (especially now with synced notifications). If they added SMS and starting a conversation by phone number (selecting from contacts obviously), it'd be the perfect messaging app in my opinion. EDIT: Hangouts on web only work with Chrome, so that rules out a lot of devices I thought were supported. Not a big deal for me, but I guess it could break your requirements depending.
- florbs 13y agoHangouts on web should work on other browsers too, obviously some better than others, but work nonetheless.
- HarshaThota 13y agohttps://groupme.com/ https://groupme.com/ may be able to help with your scenario.