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Is this a rhetorical question? ๐Ÿ˜‚

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[โ€“] unmagical@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Maybe if they reintroduced hangouts and let me:

  • make phone calls
  • make phone phone calls with Google voice
  • make voice chats
  • send sms messages
  • send sms messages with Google voice
  • send chat messages
  • make video calls
  • permit all those options (except native sms) from Gmail, the desktop app, and the dedicated webpage
  • collate my conversation with people among all the communications methods listed

I'd be tempted to use them again. It amazes me that they made an app that encompassed basically every modern form of individual communication laid out in a clear understandable manner and they just thought it would be better if every feature they offered were it's own app. Now I have to remember which medium I used to talk with somebody and use an app with fewer features.

I miss hangouts.

Hangouts was peak Google messaging. It was iMessage before iMessage. I don't know if it necessarily came first, but all my friends who have iPhones and use iMessage now used to use Hangouts on Android. I think Google has a huge opportunity to be the popular brand and lost it.

[โ€“] eluvatar@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Man those were the days. I still use Voice and have years of messages in there, I dread the day they cancel it and I need to find something else.