steven36 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 Google has officially announced that it’s shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn’t entirely unsurprising, given that Google had already paused investment in Allo back in April. Back then, the head of the communications group at Google, Anil Sabharwal, noted that “[Allo] as a whole has not achieved the level of traction we’d hoped for.” Allo will “continue to work through March 2019,” Google says, and users will be able to export their conversation history until then. The timing for Allo’s pending shut down is particularly apt, given that Verizon is set to officially launch RCS Chat on the Pixel 3 and 3 XL on December 6th. Unlike Allo, RCS Chat will be carrier-based in its implementation, and could finally give Google the sort of iMessage competitor it’s been looking for on Android for all these years, albeit through a service that won’t actually be run by Google at all. It’s also important to point out that RCS Chat is not the same thing as Google’s Hangouts Chat, the re-branded version of Google Hangouts designed for enterprise users that will eventually replace the classic Hangouts experience with something that looks similar to services like Slack. Google says Hangouts Chat and Meet, the video solution, will both be available to existing users “at some point”. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 8, 2018 Administrator Share Posted December 8, 2018 I liked it, but no one used it here. I think it was the first one to bring Google Assistant outside the new mobiles. When mine did not have Google Assistant build-in, I used to use this app for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Weird, i never heard of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted December 8, 2018 Administrator Share Posted December 8, 2018 42 minutes ago, software182 said: Weird, i never heard of it It was released together with this. But it never got that famous as most people have other apps ready for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
software182 Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 24 minutes ago, DKT27 said: It was released together with this. But it never got that famous as most people have other apps ready for it. Ah yes, probably that was the reason. Even i never use google duo either, whatsapp is already enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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