What a fucking mess

What a fucking mess
How is Google suppose to compete with Apple when they cant even have a proper messaging service?
Why is everything Googles does half-assed?

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They should just let Allo take over already. I've been using it for group chats and it's pretty sweet and does everything.

My biggest issue with it is no desktop client
Also I wish it could integrate with my phone number like iMessage does
Hangouts used to be able to do that but they removed the feature.

There is a desktop client actually.

They just need to add SMS and it win at everything.

>tfw nobody I know that owns an iphone uses imessage
>tfw nobody I know that owns an android phone uses anything googled

fuck you zuck, I wish people used imessage

Why does it even matter? Normie communication is on Facebook messenger almost exclusively. For anything else you have cross-platform clients like wire/riot/signal all of which are libre and private.

Most iPhone users I know consider iMessage a must have feature

>iPhone users

Allo is terrible.
>no conversation syncing
>have to manually backup to Drive
>no desktop client
>""encryption"" is basically pig latin
>weird, tacky Assistant implementation

>tfw literally everyone I know uses iMessage but I don't have an iPhone
I fucking hate peer pressure

There is a browser version.
Assistant works fine. The suggested Google searches are nice.

>There is a browser version
Only while your phone is on*

>iMessage
>Facebook Messenger
Are you all completely retarded or are you completely detached from society?
People use WhatsApp, have always been using Whatsapp, will always use it.
Chatting on FB hasn't been a thing since it replaced MSN in the late 2000s.

Telegram exists

Everyone switched back to Facebook soon after. They will too in whatever shithole you're at. It's more convenient because everyone already has an account and you don't need a SIM AND you can log in on any desktop.

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They have the same amount of users, 1.2B each.
Also, I don't concern myself with the opinion of le 56% face, Ameribro.

Nope, USA using imessage, korean use kakao, chinese wechat, japan use line, russian use viber, scandi use kik or snapchat. Cmon man not everyone live in India.

>mfw all my friends use groupme

Is there an app that makes a HUB of all your messaging services? I deeply hate needing to use facebook messenger + whatsapp + snapchat + more being the autistic fuck that i am

>tfw privacy has become a lost meme

What even are half of these?

YouTube is now a message client too.

Going from top left to bottom right:
>Message, the default SMS client for Android phones past Nougat
>Allo, Google's shitty WhatsApp clone with Google Assistant baked in
>Hangouts, the clunky one where you have to give people your email address and add them on Google+ to message them at all
>Duo, Google's shitty FaceTime knockoff
>Google+, the poor man's Facebook that just. won't. die.
>Google Inbox; basically a skin that goes over Gmail to add certain features
>Spaces; even I don't know what the fuck is going on there
>Project Fi is Google's cellular network. It combines 4 major cell towers into one. Only people who subscribe to Project Fi can use Hangouts with SMS and Google Voice.
>Google Contacts
>the Dialer
>and Gmail
believe it or not, this isn't even all of their messaging services. There's also Google Voice and the built-in YouTube DM service.

It's a fucking MESS

It depends on who you’re talking about. Most everyone uses Facebook messenger only kids use Snapchat Kik Instagram and others. I’m not a pedo so Facebook messenger is what I have to use to get a hold of most people.

>he lives in a shithole country

Google+ pivoted and it is mostly use for business profiles

Written like a true hindu shill.

I hate GroupMeme but it's what everyone in college uses so I have to keep using it

This, four years of this shit and the app still works poorly

>having people to talk to

I like it desu
the only thing i hate is that my friends start chatting whenever I start beating off so they interrupt my videos

Did you not read the Damore memo? Hiring for diversity instead of ability has caught up with them. Google innovates only through acquiring innovative companies. The employees of these companies are absorbed into Google and they leave as soon as their golden handcuffs are removed or they get too many HR demerits.

Can't you set your status to offline or something?

Yeah I always forget to change it back and then I miss out on when they all go to the bar and stuff.
It's not even a complaint with the app more or a complaint of my friends

Google Voice is a mobile and home phone service. It allows for calling over wifi and also forwarding to your service providers phone number, all while still using your Google Voice phone number. Google Allo is THE messenger app; it's great. Google Duo is for video calling (the best quality calls ever) to replace Skype; it also has just voice calling ability as well. Hangouts is still used as a Google Voice dialer for when you need to make a phone call with your Google Voice number. Beyond that, Google Allo and Google Duo have replaced Google Hangouts other features. Inbox by Gmail beats Gmail all the way. Stop using Gmail and start using Inbox by Gmail. Google+ is dead. Google Groups is for assisting Googlers with technical issues and for the archival of older forums, etc. Google Fi is a mobile phone provider that can access cell towers without using a forward from Google Voice to a non-Google service provider. Google Spaces is still around? Get your honja on.

>Beating off so long you miss out on going to the bar
Lmao I am imagining a tub of mayo trying to get some self-romance on while mom keeps knocking on the door

I think Disa is the closest thing... If you trust them with all of your fucking messages, which I don't.

every single person i know uses facebook messenger.
i think what you use is pretty based on the country you are from too. my father lives in abu dhabi and they exclusively use whatsapp for everything so he has had to swap to that. even when his tv broke he sent a picture of the problem to customer support on whatsapp.

i dont get when people say they cant live without imessage. is the experience not literally the exact same as texting but the bubble is blue instead of green?

>tfw thought Inbox was just a gimmick, solution for a problem that didn't even existed
>installed it, and now can't live without it


it's great if you have an email address that's 10+ years old and is filled with spam from porn sites and Amazon

it keeps the important stuff where you can read it