R.E.N. Spells Ren
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Seriously, why are there so multiple Google messaging apps?
Google has messenger and Hangouts....what's the point of separate apps?
They did the same thing in the early days having a 'browser' app and a 'chrome' app you had to download. Truly made no sense whatsoever.
Is Google really not smart enough to see that having a common messaging system that the vast majority of Android users use would be tremendous leverage for their market share?
One thing the iOS does really well is iMessage. It's not that iMessage is such a great app (there's nothing special about it), it's just that everyone uses it so they communicate with each other flawlessly. This is really frustrating, because MMS fukking SUCKS. Yet I'm forced to use it when group texting. There's no advantage to Android to Android communication, because people use different apps so I still have to send MMS. This issue is becoming so frustrating that I'm genuinely considering moving to iOS for my next phone.
It's a bit ridiculous that Google hasn't developed a competent, system wide, messaging solution by now. Seems they don't care to.
Can someone, anyone, explain what the hell they're thinking?
Google has messenger and Hangouts....what's the point of separate apps?

They did the same thing in the early days having a 'browser' app and a 'chrome' app you had to download. Truly made no sense whatsoever.
Is Google really not smart enough to see that having a common messaging system that the vast majority of Android users use would be tremendous leverage for their market share?

One thing the iOS does really well is iMessage. It's not that iMessage is such a great app (there's nothing special about it), it's just that everyone uses it so they communicate with each other flawlessly. This is really frustrating, because MMS fukking SUCKS. Yet I'm forced to use it when group texting. There's no advantage to Android to Android communication, because people use different apps so I still have to send MMS. This issue is becoming so frustrating that I'm genuinely considering moving to iOS for my next phone.
It's a bit ridiculous that Google hasn't developed a competent, system wide, messaging solution by now. Seems they don't care to.
Can someone, anyone, explain what the hell they're thinking?
