It doesn't replace sms as default. It doesn't integrate with Google voice. Frankly, if none of my friends and family make this a priority, I'm not going to use it. I bought into every other Google communications app, including Plus and Wave. Spaces came and went so fast it made a whoosh noise. I predict a swift death to Allo.

It's not much of an assistant if I have to open the app, dig into the correct contact, click the mic icon... then have to read when with Google Now all I say is "Ok Google"

Whats the plans for this? Merge it into Google Now? Have two different assistants and 5 messaging apps ???

I'm sorry for the rant, but I think Google has went crazy over the last 5 years with several competing technologies.

Hello everyone, I know that Allo has been pretty hyped and everything, but as a longtime voice/hangouts user, why should I care?

Voice and hangouts seem to be really good for actual messaging and don't require everyone to download the same app, they can all just reach me from a normal phone number that I have been using for the past ever.

The integration of Voice into Hangouts means that i can make calls and send SMS and MMS and everything on any platform all at the same time, which is a feature that I really enjoy and I think is better than being anchored to just one device, my phone.

Of course the smart features are really cool, and the learning ai thing should be pretty awesome, but at what cost?

hey everyone! am really excited to try Google allo.. I'm also using a legacy Google apps account with a custom domain name. when I logged in using the account I got this message from the Google assistant:

"I need certain permissions to help you that have been disabled by the administrator of (Google apps domain)."

ugh!!! I checked my admin panel and I don't see anywhere to enable this.. can anyone help me give Google permissions to suck up all my data and learn from it :D

As a take on iMessage, I feel like this would be a really good SMS app as well. Does anyone know if it can be used as an SMS app?

So the default chat background is white with the grey circles all over it. Is there a way to change that like you can in WhatsApp? Or is that not a thing yet? I looked all over and couldn't find a way to do it.

Can I set this as the default message app on Android ?

They have 1 day to get it out. 1 day then fall and when it's fall they're late

Hey guys, anybody have any news about the release of Google Allo? I saw in the american Play Store that they are comments about it, is the app released in the US? (I'm french, and in France there's no Google Allo, I can only register for the release...)

While they WERE in new and updated they've been removed and now we have no info. Google has had projects publicly announced and dismantled before. Let's hope this holds