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Google is going crazy with this unbundling/rebundling nonsense. There was once Google Voice, Google Chat, Google Talk, Google Hangouts and now Google Messenger

by r0h1n 12y ago

Google is going crazy with this unbundling/rebundling nonsense. There was once Google Voice, Google Chat, Google Talk, Google Hangouts and now Google Messenger! This is crazy. Yesterday I opened a Google Drive spreadsheet via the Android "Drive" (which was earlier "Docs") app yesterday but when I tried to edit a cell was told I need to install "Sheets" to do so! I'm waiting for Google Save, Google Forward, Google Share, Google Delete. Sorry, scratch that last one cos we know Delete ain't gonna happpen at Google.

oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
Google Delete happens. Just ask Google Reader.
- digi_owl 12y ago
  Did they also delete peoples reading history? Now thats the puzzler.
untog 12y ago
With regard to the messenger stuff, there is now only Hangouts, if you do things the "Google Way" - it integrates Google Voice, Google Chat and Messenger. This Messenger app appears to be if you don't want to use Hangouts.
cloakandswagger 12y ago
I don't know what's happening inside Google right now but their products are becoming ridiculously fractured. Android is the clearest example. They also just fractured one of their biggest, most successful products with Inbox. This leads to an interesting paradox: Google aggressively kills or uproots projects, APIs and frameworks (Angular) with little regard for users but can't seem to apply the same ideology toward building a coherent app ecosystem.
chinpokomon 12y ago
The Drive/Sheets/Docs/Etc. split is old news at this point. That happened awhile ago. I believe the split was a good choice though. It is the difference of Microsoft Works and the individual products of Office. It allows someone who only needs to read content, like I'm sure most phone users are, to have an app for that purpose and it allows Google to iterate on the individual apps on different cycles. This means more frequent and rapid updates for the individual apps, but it can also mean fewer updates for the user if they don't have the full suite installed.

by r0h1n 12y ago

oneeyedpigeon 12y ago

Google Delete happens. Just ask Google Reader.

digi_owl 12y ago
Did they also delete peoples reading history? Now thats the puzzler.

untog 12y ago

With regard to the messenger stuff, there is now only Hangouts, if you do things the "Google Way" - it integrates Google Voice, Google Chat and Messenger. This Messenger app appears to be if you don't want to use Hangouts.

cloakandswagger 12y ago

I don't know what's happening inside Google right now but their products are becoming ridiculously fractured. Android is the clearest example. They also just fractured one of their biggest, most successful products with Inbox. This leads to an interesting paradox: Google aggressively kills or uproots projects, APIs and frameworks (Angular) with little regard for users but can't seem to apply the same ideology toward building a coherent app ecosystem.

chinpokomon 12y ago

The Drive/Sheets/Docs/Etc. split is old news at this point. That happened awhile ago. I believe the split was a good choice though. It is the difference of Microsoft Works and the individual products of Office. It allows someone who only needs to read content, like I'm sure most phone users are, to have an app for that purpose and it allows Google to iterate on the individual apps on different cycles. This means more frequent and rapid updates for the individual apps, but it can also mean fewer updates for the user if they don't have the full suite installed.