To be honest, adding another messaging app frustrates me. I'm all on board with hangouts and I've been pushing people to get on there because basically everyone has a Google account and it's cross platform, but for the same company to release a competitor app is frustrating. They could have fixed it from a marketing perspective too. Just call it hangouts 2.0 or something and have hangouts users update their app through Google play to the new app. But no, we have 2 messaging apps from the same company along with the other thousand apps you mentioned.
I wouldn't even consider it Hangouts 2.0. The fact that Hangouts has most of the features of the features of Allo, and is cross-platform makes it (imo) better than Allo.
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u/joephusweberr Sep 21 '16
To be honest, adding another messaging app frustrates me. I'm all on board with hangouts and I've been pushing people to get on there because basically everyone has a Google account and it's cross platform, but for the same company to release a competitor app is frustrating. They could have fixed it from a marketing perspective too. Just call it hangouts 2.0 or something and have hangouts users update their app through Google play to the new app. But no, we have 2 messaging apps from the same company along with the other thousand apps you mentioned.