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Well, when you click "get hangouts" the options are "Android, iOS or Computers". So anyone that wants to run it on anything but a smartphone gets told that it c

• magicalist 12y ago
  yeah, I had never visited that site until that discussion was making the rounds on twitter, so, no clue. I could see an argument for "this is a site where you can install hangouts as an app". There's nothing particularly wrong with using Chrome as a runtime (imagine if Mozilla's old Prism project had stuck around and people made "native" apps with it...requiring Firefox to run it would be just that: a requirement to run the app because that's how Prism worked), but if your motivation was to get users to use hangouts, I don't know why you wouldn't also mention that you probably already have it if you use gmail, so just open it up in there. My only claim is that if you open up a chat window in gmail and hit the video button it works in other browsers and that using hangouts that way was never broken.
  • azakai 12y ago
    If so, I wonder why the site doesn't just say "to run Hangouts on a computer, just load a hangout in your browser" (possibly with a link to the right place). It seems such an easy thing to fix, and it was pointed out publicly, yet no change has been made. It seems unlikely to me that the assumption is that people that pick "computer" over "smartphone" distinctly want a native app as opposed to just running hangouts in the easiest way possible. All they did was click on "get hangouts".