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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family

https://9to5google.com/2023/06/30/google-chat-friends/

While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...

Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family

tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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Toribor

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Using Google apps used to be a smooth and seamless experience but it's become a slog. The best you can hope for is that they'll just stop supporting whatever service you like and just let it rot without updates for years while you are allowed to keep using it. Otherwise they'll just force you to migrate around constantly while merging or fragmenting the experience until the former happens anyway.

It's exhausting and it's utterly destroyed my desire to check out anything new in their ecosystem.