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.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Killing hangouts just made me use other platforms and throw Google in the bin.

    When they keep killing stuff I use, I get burnt.

        • hamburglar26@wilbo.tech
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          1 year ago

          Inbox dying was when I started to pull back from Google. What a great product and they just trashed it.

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            1 year ago

            I still haven’t found anything as good as inbox. I used Outlook for a few years, and spark for a couple more, but I just went back to Gmail a couple months ago

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I hit a point around 2018 where I went from being a huge fan of Google’s to switching to iOS and trying to degoogle my life as much as possible (but also not wholly relying on one company for anything. I still have Google photos, but I also have local backups of all my photos, plus they’re in OneDrive and iCloud for example)