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.

  • Sooperstition@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    How long until they close down the Google Chat app and move to something else that is barely different?

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      1 year ago

      This is Google’s biggest problem, I think. They’re so flaky on their products and services, I find myself not wanting to bother trying things out in case they don’t become popular enough for Google to maintain. I saw a lot of the same remarks about Stadia, and though I seem to remember Google assuring Stadia was playing the long game, well, we see how that played out.

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        1 year ago

        Stadia really needed to be a monthly subscription model rather than asking people to buy games on Stadia.

        Nobody wanted to buy in to a Google platform, but I might’ve signed up for a month and had a look.