OK, Google. Let's try this again.
  • Nate@programming.devEnglish
    321·
    1 year ago

    Google fucked around too long for me to consider using any of their new services and I’m working on dropping the old. Got bit in the ass with Allo, Hangouts, GPM, Inbox, and latestly Domains, which I thought was safe.

    • zxcv@vlemmy.netEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yeah getting dependent on any Google service is just a waiting game to handle catastrophe. That said I’ve yet to find a single semi-competent calendar widget in Android (month view most importantly) which keeps me. But as the legacy workspaces fiasco showed it’s only a matter of time until I’m forced to take action.

          • Nate@programming.devEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I just moved mine to namecheap & am using cloudflare dns instead of Google cloud dns. Had to setup my email forwarding and my ssl certificate renewal again but otherwise rather painless.

            Namecheap’s website loads pretty slow but their support is top notch. The chat button on the page will immediately connect you to somebody that actually knows the product which is nice.

  • Kimagure@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Can’t wait to see Google rename or kill Chat because it’s not gaining traction as expected.

  • hakunamafcukit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Google’s inability to stick with something despite its flaws and working on making it better over time, but instead constantly scrapping and renaming services is why I don’t bother investing in any of their experimental projects. Why should anybody waste their time getting used to something if google is just gonna ditch it after a while.

  • myxi@feddit.nlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Google Chat is trash. It can’t beat Signal in terms of features and never will because Chat is by Google.

  • Incoherent@feddit.nlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Committing to any new google products is just asking to be disappointment.
    There is no culture of keeping and improving any product anymore, if there ever was.

  • Devgard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Google shouldn’t be trying to push Chat as a WhatsApp and teams competitor. It’s hard enough getting people to adopt the normal Google Messages app.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Ideally google should push for a regulatory investigation into Meta for their market share of Messenger + WhatsApp.

      Every year we see either messenger or WhatsApp at the top of communication tools in all countries apart from east and south east Asia.

  • Exilfranke@feddit.deEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Many have tried, many have failed.

    You simply need a killer feature to get people to change.

    • Quetzacoatl@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      whatsapp’s killer feature was “no killer features, just a messaging app with number-bound IDs and good UI that even my grandma can use with minimal setup”. for anything like that again I’d change, but the minute they think they need to add something like numberless IDs, or stickers, or a social media feature, or a payment system, they can fuck right off.

  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    We can’t even get to a point where we have 3rd party apps supporting RCS on Android. I don’t really trust Google’s ability to deliver on and continue to support new products.

  • LeTak@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    It would be a nice world were people only need 1-2 messaging apps. Google chats and iMessage. Yes I know that they are not open source and so need to be blindly trusted with our data.