2y ago

Google Chat gets message bubble redesign

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Google Chat gets message bubble redesign, looks like Google Messages

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Why does google have 3 messaging apps?
- When internally, you have multiple teams competing, you get the following lmaoo
  https://images.app.goo.gl/UNHdEde5gUodGhhx5
  
  Here's your link attached directly! Credit: xkcd.
- For real. I was like "Chat? Which of their messaging apps is that?" Messages at least seems like it'll be around for a while, but I don't trust Google with not killing any of their projects...
  
  Google will kill off one app to force you to move to another... And then they'll kill off that one too.
Isn't Google Chat a feature of Google Messages? It's what they call RCS for some reason.
- Nope, different product with almost the exact same name lol.
  
  Here's a bonus for more confusion: in Google Messages if your carrier doesn't self host RCS, that "Chat" toggle changes to a ”Google Jibe" one 🤦‍♂️
  Edit: clarify app
- Messages is sms, MMS, RCS. I'm not sure what chat uses, but it's a data protocol not tied to the cell network
- they stopped calling it Chat in Google messages a while ago
  
  Screenshot taken moments ago.
I thought they got rid of Google chat and made it only for their paid plans or whatever, I remember uninstalling it and switching to signal when they killed it.
Also why is the update to make it look the same it did before
- They migrated hangouts to chat and opened chat up to unpaid users
  
  All the talk about killing hangouts and they just end up migrating it instead. What is up at Google
…yea and it’s Apple’s fault Chat is a terrible experience.

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