While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    Killing hangouts just made me use other platforms and throw Google in the bin.

    When they keep killing stuff I use, I get burnt.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        My personal theory is that because the turnover rate is so absurdly high at Google, every 5 or so years they don’t have anyone remaining that knows the code for their chat app, and it’s easier to just rewrite a new one from scratch.

    • kiddblur@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I hit a point around 2018 where I went from being a huge fan of Google’s to switching to iOS and trying to degoogle my life as much as possible (but also not wholly relying on one company for anything. I still have Google photos, but I also have local backups of all my photos, plus they’re in OneDrive and iCloud for example)