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Google Talk flashbacks anyone?
Google Talk, Google Chat, Google Huddle... Some of them even integrated with Gmail.
Seems like a dumb idea to try again, when already established chat systems that won't vanish in a year exist.
Also Allo, I used to use that app, it was very clean, but no one I talked to heard of it
I feel like everyone who knew enough to know about Allo was also acutely aware that Google would probably kill it, and it would really suck to move friends to an app that’s just gonna join the graveyard with the dozen others
Makes sense, I just got my first android and that happen to be the app that Google was promoting heavily at the time
No love for Google Wave?
No, it came after Google Talk (XMPP) and was in fact based on the same protocol. The new thing it brought was live updates, so you could see other people typing, and it also had different types of content, not just text.
Hangouts still works. I believe it's their longest running chat app.
Really thought they killed it many years ago.
The story’s older than that:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
Google Wave?