Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down19
arrow-up1136arrow-down1external-linkDoes Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes”arstechnica.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square45fedilink
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down1·11 months agonot like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
minus-squareSabata11792@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoAt this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
minus-squareumbrella@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoMove to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
minus-squareTelodzrum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoInstant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
minus-squareZak@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoThe golden opportunity was when Hangouts was the default SMS app on Android. The same technique has been very successful for Apple.
not like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
At this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
Move to an open, safe, user-respecting option like signal. Fuck using Google stuff for more than just this reason.
Instant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
The golden opportunity was when Hangouts was the default SMS app on Android. The same technique has been very successful for Apple.