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.
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.
Have you tried Proton’s calender? I’ve relied solely on it since its beta a couple of years ago.
When the workspaces-fiasco occurred I even signed up for Proton, but even as of today their only calendar widget is a glorified to-do-list for the current day. A shame really, I submitted feedback over a year ago for a widget with a monthly overview but alas. I get the feeling they’re very Google-like in that they pump out new features but hardly maintain/develop what’s already released.
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Wait, what happened with domains?
Got sold to squarespace
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.
Can’t wait to see Google rename or kill Chat because it’s not gaining traction as expected.
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.
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.
I miss Google Wave
I’m all in on Matrix, anything else has become irrelevant to me.
It feels like matrix is the answer to a something I considered a lot a few years back which is that it shouldn’t be on me, the sender, to know what messaging app the receiver would like to use. I should be able to send to some sort of message clearing house and then the receiver can elect the way they want to retrieve from that.
Is that about right?
It can be if there are enough clients supporting the Matrix protocol, as it currently stands though most people will just use Element the official client, and those big techs are mostly likely will never going to support it.
Might be a UK thing maybe but nearly everyone I know has switched to another sms app or turned off Rcs chat in messages.
I’ve never seen it work most times you’d send a message then be told about a day later it was undelivered. Sms needs to be instant waiting hours before you even know it wasn’t even sent is just plain unacceptable especially when nearly everyone has unlimited sms to begin with.
I’ve only used RCS a few times a my MIL has patchy data in her flat. The problem I have with it is that it’s baked into the same app as SMS, so you’re not really sure if you’re going to be sending an SMS or RCS message until you go into the chat and it says whether it’s available. And I don’t trust that it’s always going to work as RCS - I certainly don’t want it falling back to SMS if it fails.
With WhatsApp or Telegram, you know exactly what’s happening.
I think it’s meant to appeal to the US who I believe still use SMS a lot. If you’re still using SMS, I guess having it switch over to RCS is a bonus.
If you usually use WhatsApp, having a message go through as an SMS is a PITA.
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.
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.
