Google: Allo Darkness, My Old Friend

tinoesroho · December 7, 2018, 3:47pm

Well, it’s official: Google’s unloved chat app is getting the final call.

The fourth of Google’s chat apps, Allo is survived by Hangouts, Duo, and Messages.

Wisconsin_Platt · December 7, 2018, 4:19pm

Allo is survived by Hangouts, Duo, and Messages

I thought I’d seen Hangouts was being shuttered or was that only part of Hangouts?

tinoesroho · December 7, 2018, 4:23pm

Hangouts gets retired next July in favor of Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Talk

LockeCJ · December 7, 2018, 9:20pm

FTFY

LearnedCoward · December 8, 2018, 12:42am

Unified should mean “one”, but five instead of a fucktillion is some improvement, I guess.

LockeCJ · December 8, 2018, 2:21am

I actually regularly use both Hangouts and Allo, but to be fair it’s only to talk to two people.

Hangouts Meet and Talk are going to be positioned as enterprise communications apps, and then opened up to consumers.

My current plan is to move both people over to my private Mattermost server. If I could also get the people I regularly communicate over Facebook messenger with, I would consider that a stupendous personal victory.

gadgetgirl · December 8, 2018, 3:21am

It’s a shame. Hangouts work really, really well, unlike some more popular options, like WebEx.

tinoesroho · December 8, 2018, 6:37am

random, spontaneous google hangouts conferences are my favorite thing about leftist web.