While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...

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.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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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.

    • zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      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.