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New Google chat

Started Aug 31, 2020 | Discussions thread
CAcreeks
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Re: New Google chat

wklee wrote:

fotografffic wrote:

Can someone please help me decipher this article ?

I've been using Google Messenger for some time. The other day it presented me with the choice to switch it to Chat. I didn't.

Then I read this: "SMS is a basic tech that’s really best avoided—and unfortunately RCS hasn’t fixed one of its most critical issues."

So I shouldn't be using Google Messenger with or without the chat feature? Use WhatsApp instead (article warns about Facebook)? or something called Signal?

Thank you.

On my Android phone I have Google Messages not Chat and I have heard the same warning. Which is that RCS is not yet ready. Chat is disabled in Messages on my phone. I use the phone for SMS.

I was confused by your first post - there is no such thing as Google Messenger. Your second post is correct. It is Google Messages, a simple SMS based app. Blue quote rectangle with 2.7 white lines. Aside from lack of end-to-end encryption, SMS is slow (especially for photos), unreliable, multi-user hostile, and seldom available over WiFi.

I'm not planning to install Google Chat until somebody I know demands to use it. Possibly it will be like Google+, which never took off. I liked Hangouts because it had an interface inside Gmail, but Google abandoned it, the fockers.

A manager forced me to install WhatsApp for a conference, but I deleted it as soon as I could. Seems like a duplication of every other messaging app.

My family uses Signal. It seems good so far. Like WhatsApp it is end-to-end encrypted, but not owned by Facebook.

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