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Google Allo Messaging App Launches For iOS and Android (phonedog.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Google has officially launched their long-awaited messaging app for iOS and Android, called Google Allo. There are several unique features associated with this app that Google hopes will win you over. Smart Reply lets you respond to messages with just a tap, so you can send a quick "yup" in response to a friend asking "Are you on your way?" It will also suggest responses for photos. For example, if you send a picture of a dog, Smart Reply might suggest a heart emoji or "Super cute!" message, which you can select and send with a tap. Google says Smart Reply will improve over time and adjust to your style. You can also send large or small text and emojis, as well as draw on pictures. There's an incognito mode that will activate end-to-end encryption, discreet notifications, and message expiration on your chats. Arguably best of all is the Google Assistant that can be added to your chats to automatically cater useful information to you depending on what is being conversed in the chat. For example, it can deliver news, weather, traffic, sports or your upcoming flight status to your chat. You can also ask your Assistant to "share that funny YouTube video or play games with friends right in your group chat." Google Allo is rolling out to Android and iOS starting today.
This is one kind of AI that computers might well excel at. By automating our insincerity, we'll have more time to hunt for pokemonsters, and to while away on Twitter (aka Automated Impropriety).
Hopefully not on SpaceX.
So what happened to Google Messenger? Right. They crippled it, stopped updating the application binary, and forced everyone to use a crap HTML 5 version of it inside GMail. That's what happened.
I don't get the need to constantly rename the same thing over and over. Just don't kill products that people actually like that work Google.
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......and became discontinued shortly after gaining popularity.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I shall say this only once...
After careful consideration, we have decided to discontinue the Allo Messaging App, so that we can focus on our core user experience.
We would like to thank everybody who used Allo, and recommend that existing users switch to our Hey! App.
Long awaited by whom? Who's been sitting eagerly waiting on yet another messenger app?
What happened to Yo !
Now I can replace myself with a very small script. And be social despite being an antisocial asshole who can't be assed to spend half a minute reading a message and ten more seconds replying to it.
If both people have that app, they can essentially let their phones be friends and needn't even know that they befriended each other. Or you can stay "in touch" with a friend without all the hassle of human-human interaction, just let your phone stay in contact with his phone to create the illusion that you still talk to each other, kinda like an old married couple.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Telephone and postal services were created in times, when governments heavily regulated all aspects of business. Thats why you can call even today from anywhere to anywhere else. Computer messaging is OTOH left unregulated to free market competition, therefore soon everyone will have his/her own messaging app incompatible with everyone else. You will have as many messaging apps installed as people you need to talk to.
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Looking for Allo i also found "Google Duo".
What the fuck is that all about? It looks like a clone of hangouts.
Which one should i use? And by that i also mean which one is NOT gonna get discontinued next month so that i can suggest it to my friends and relatives?
Google Allo Messaging App Killed For IOS and Android
I'm still trying to understand why did Google kill GTalk, replaced with that stupid Hangouts, and never release a desktop app, they had everything going with GTalk and for some reason they decided to kill it, now everyone else has switched to other services.
It will one day translate French and German messages into English with a French and German accent respectively.
At this rate, I can ignore the messaging craze completely, as my 2018 it'll only consist of AI bots pretending to be people. Then I can grab a beer and read a book under a shady tree, secure in the knowledge that my personal brand is being maintained by my AI bot.
- Paul
And it will likely fail for the same reason Google Plus did: Most people are already on other services and can be bothered to switch to this one
And that's why the heavy government regulation of email is why I can send an email from my account to anyone, no matter what mail-provider he or she is using?
You can send an email. But even if your server correctly uses DKIM and SPF, your server's outgoing mail will likely just end up in the recipient's junk mail folder unless you lease an increasingly scarce static IPv4 address and qualify and pay for an EV certificate to give your mail server "instant reputation".
So if they kill this one off prematurely now, they'd be killing it off prematurely... prematurely?
So, Google created a brand new app with tons of fancy features, but it lacks the basic functionality that most other modern text messaging apps have to schedule messages to be sent at a later time/date?
No, thanks.
Doesn't seem like a crucial feature to me. What would you use it for?
One thing I really like about Hangouts is that it has a Desktop client/Chrome Extension. Whatever you call it. I can chat on my computer without taking my phone out of my pocket.
A Quick look and it what I could see then there only a phone client. And you can only have it active on one device at the time. So no Tablet and Phone active at the same time. (I know that it runs on phone number. But you could just verify the new login with manual entering a code on the tablet/Desktop. Og even make it optional to link to your Google Account.)
I simply never trust encryption when it is from the same vendor that controls the device, software, cloud, etc. Unfortunately everyone mentions malware or hackers as their fears. The corporations and government are way worse. If I use a cloud storage app, I encrypt my data on my linux box first, then push into the cloud. Same with this. If Pidgin or some other open, 3rd party makes a client function within the Allo protocols, I'll use my own end to end encryption with an app not controlled by Google.
Digital is, by definition, imperfect. Analog is the way to go.
I can't find a way to do that in Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Discord, Google Voice or any text messaging app I've used on Palm OS, Blackberry or Android. I don't remember that feature existing on ICQ, AIM or Google Talk either. While I can see some people wanting that feature, I have to disagree on "most other modern text messaging apps" having it.
"Hi - I'm dead" ? Scheduled for 50+ years out?
or "Get up kid - your breakfast is on the counter - I've gone to work so it's your responsibility to get on the bus !!! - Love Mom/Dad"
Ergo, well informed and intelligent people know better than to waste time using stuff Google creates,
because it is not worth the time wasted when Google does away with the Google product.
Sony did this "death of device without warning" shit to me with the Clié. I'll never buy ANYTHING Sony is selling, as long as I live.
Of course the Sony rootkit CD served to increase my contempt for Sony, but my decision was
made by the way Sony left Clie users high and dry, with no warning.
After years of trying a myriad of communication apps, I though Hangouts was the one. A cross-platform system that unified all of my communications. Coupled with Google Voice/Google Fi/ on my Nexus 5x - it was damn good.
It took me a year to get all the iOS users around me to install Hangouts. They didn't want to be bothered with yet another communication app - but I stuck with it and eventually everyone got on Hangouts.
Now Google wants me to do the same with two more apps - and then force me to be tethered to my phone? Screw that.
My new iPhone arrives on Friday. I can't keep up with the corporate A.D.D. that afflicts Google's management.
I use it almost daily for reminders. Calendar works to remind yourself, but not to remind others.
Are you almost finished with that project? - Boss schedule's text to subordinate for next Thursday.
Did you stop and pick up the milk? - Wife schedules text to husband for 5:30pm
Google Hangouts is probably the only Google product without a search feature, so I stuck with the basic sms app on my phone...does this one have a search feature?
Interesting, never thought about using an instant messenger this way. Which messengers support this? I use Hangouts, Signal and WhatsApp. No more desktop clients as I use too many devices; my BBM, ICQ and Skype accounts are inactive. None of those allowed scheduled delivery IIRC.
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"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
What is Google thinking? Google Allo cannot be used as a default SMS app. If a text message is sent from Allo to a non-Allo user, the recipient would get a relay message asking him or her to join Allo. Google now has Hangouts (which can be used as a default SMS app), Allo (?), Duo (video messaging), Voice (?), and Messenger. What is the need for these apps?!
A NYC lawyer blogs. http://www.chuangblog.com/
I use it to schedule birthday messages. I also find it very useful to send messages when a person is most likely to notice the message when it arrives so that it doesn't get lost among all their other notifications.
Someone showed me this on WhatsApp, I thought. Samsung's default messenger does it. I've started using Textra to do it. And I was just told that Facebook messenger does it.
Doesn't seem to be possible on WhatsApp without third-party apps. I don't use the other messengers you mention.