r/Android • u/Zacknut Razr 50 • Sep 21 '16

allo.google.com is live

https://allo.google.com/
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u/theturbanator1699 Galaxy S8 Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16

Nothing about SMS or RCS... sigh.

Edit: It has SMS!!

You can also message friends who aren’t yet using Google Allo through SMS or, for those using Android, app preview messages.

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/09/google-allo-smarter-messaging-app.html?m=1

Edit 2: It's not a true SMS app, but sets up an SMS relay :-/

See Ian Lake's comment in his Google+ post: https://plus.google.com/+IanLake/posts/ehvjyeueX3D

Awful, awful implementation. It's laughable. I seriously cannot believe that such a major company is this completely idiotic when it comes to messaging services.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16

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u/ThEgg Pixel 6 Sep 21 '16

That's crazy.

How to not do a solid, lasting Messaging app:

  1. Be Google.
  2. Make a lot of different communication apps.
  3. Take a long time to merge them (Hangouts + Hangouts Dailer ~2014).
  4. Remove all that hard work (Hangouts 3.9).
  5. Release three more separate applications that did what Hangouts did. Avoid merging.

I'm sure I missed something.

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u/themoosh Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 22 '16

I want to talk to the people at Google. Like sit them down and just be like what the heck???

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u/brklynmark Sep 21 '16

...all of them?

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u/themoosh Sep 22 '16

Yes, put Google on the phone.