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Google Unifies Cross-Platform Messaging Services With 'Hangouts'
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Can't stand when it arranges my messages out of order. Apple get it together...
Google Hangouts Omnidirectional Social and Telecommunications Protocol (GHOST Protocol, for short).
Feel better??
Damn. Maps, Hangouts, Google Now, Voice...Apple has A LOT of work to do.
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What? You think Apple doesn't save your iMessages on their servers? You guys kill me.
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What? You think Apple doesn't save your iMessages on their servers?
You guys kill me.yup, I'm using firefox and it wouldn't let me download it either. Chrome doesn't play well with a few sites that I regularly use.
Can you contact everyone at oncce on Facebook-GooglePlus-iMessage-BBM-Hangouts? Hmmm...no?
Can you contact everyone at once using e-mail? Yup
I use some of these services often. They're fairly useful. But until someone addresses that issue none of them will ever come close to being essential.
Can you contact everyone at once using e-mail? Yup
I use some of these services often. They're fairly useful. But until someone addresses that issue none of them will ever come close to being essential.
Oh dear.... It is bad enough when my other half shows me historic text message conversations that have gone...er...bad....
Are you a terrorist or something? Jesus!
What's up with all that "Google phobia"???
Give us a break!
It appears it works on all major browsers but You have to install some extra plugin, even for hrome!. LAme
https://plus.google.com/hangouts
if You go there and hit start it will ask for the install
So if You try to fire it up on someon elses or public computer there is no way to use it.
time for u to move to the north korean mountains if you r so afraid of the internet
A text messaging app that takes and indexes all of my private messages for Google's profit? Can't see any reason not to sign up.
Why bother when Apple's Message works with Google accounts? Just message their Gmail address and you're set.
Why bother when Apple's Message works with Google accounts? Just message their Gmail address and you're set.
Carriers still charge $30+/month for a data connection that costs them pennies.
You "save" money by not using SMS/MMS, but then use their other method of raping consumers.
Always wanted iMessage for my PC so I could reply without having to pick up my phone every 2 minutes. This should fill that gap!
"conversations which last" = Google stores your chat history for all of eternity in order to market targeted ads to you.
Pass.
Pass.
We're on Google Biz Apps, and we use Hangouts almost daily for team stand ups. It works really well, the audio is very good, and the collaboration tools are very good. We've been using screen share + Reflector to show off builds of our iOS product I've also used it twice with an iOS device where I was offsite, but on a really stout LTE connection, also worked great.
We use Message (in OSX/iOS) for quick communications, but if we need to chat, we almost always turn to a Hangout (the audio is always better than a couple of our teams cellphones).
As long as you have a Google+ account you should be good to go, and if I recall, our Biz Account had it automatically enabled as soon as I setup my G+ Our team (on the same Biz Account) was already a group that could be selected during a Hangout.
I've also used it twice with an iOS device where I was offsite, but on a really stout LTE connection, also worked great.We use Message (in OSX/iOS) for quick communications, but if we need to chat, we almost always turn to a Hangout (the audio is always better than a couple of our teams cellphones).
As long as you have a Google+ account you should be good to go, and if I recall, our Biz Account had it automatically enabled as soon as I setup my G+ Our team (on the same Biz Account) was already a group that could be selected during a Hangout.
