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.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    And the new one they introduced will have fewer features than the old one with no plans to get it to feature parity.

    • Limeade@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Alternatively, they may make an amazing second chat app that is the smoothest you’ve ever seen and then they’ll shutter it and say “don’t worry, we rolled a couple of those features into Google Chat.”