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.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    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.techEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

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

          • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            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

    • kiddblur@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      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)