• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    No, seriously. What is Google Chat? What’s the point? They have Google Messenger

    • jetA
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      1 year ago

      and google talk (2007) and google voice (2009) and google wave (2009) and google buzz (2010) even google plus+ hangouts (2011) google+ huddle (2011) google docs chat (2013) hangouts proper (2013) google spaces (2016) : google allo (2016) google meet (2017) youtube messeges (2017) google chat (2018) google maps messages (2018) google RCS (2019) Google photos messages (2020) google stadia messages (2020) google pay messages (2021) gogole assistant messages (2021) google phone messages (different from above) 2021 google chat (AGAIN) 2021

      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

      Out of all of these, how many are still running and would you trust?

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        1 year ago

        I use Messages, as an SMS/MMS client, but only because I use it max 10 times a month for some OTPs and I don’t want to install another app.