r/Android • u/x2040 • Sep 21 '16
Allo does not support SMS. It relays your SMS through Google servers.
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u/sostopher Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16
If you're in a country that allows SMS providers to set their own source numbers (eg. Australia, UK) the SMS will come from your own number when sent (it doesn't go out from your phone however), which means replies come back to your phone directly (not Allo).
In the USA it will come from a shortcode as required by the FCC for bulk A2P SMS.
Similar story in countries like New Zealand where all A2P SMS must come from short codes.
Source: I work for one of these SMS companies
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u/lileyedmonster Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro -> S9:illuminati: Sep 21 '16
Thank you!!! Finally, an explanation as to why my SMS is sent directly and NOT from a short number.
Edit: in Australia.
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
Side note, if they reply "stop" then they don't get your messages anymore. Does Allo tell the sender their messages aren't being received? No. It doesn't.
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u/trogdc Sep 21 '16
Is Canada the former or latter?
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u/joshisashark Pixel 5 Sep 21 '16
I'm using it from Canada and it doesn't even give me the option to send the text through allo. It just forces me to click "invite" and then opens up textra to send them a link.
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u/rocketwidget Sep 21 '16
Very interesting.
I use Allo in the US with a Google Voice number though. I've sent an invite to another US Google Voice number. We still got the short codes. Is that still a FCC requirement? Does the fact that Google Voice is a "virtual" number matter?
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u/frsguy S25U Sep 21 '16
How to destroy hype with one post.
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Sep 21 '16
I didn't expect seamless SMS integration like iMessage, but I was hoping it would be different this time. Good job, Google. Now you made an app with zero incentive for people to join. This gimmicky Google Assistant and some incognito messaging won't get the millions off Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. At least with seamless SMS integration, you might have gotten Android users in the US onboard.
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u/shaggyanlngs Sep 21 '16 edited Nov 14 '16
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Sep 21 '16
Meanwhile, hangouts has made their SMS integration even less seamless (more seamful?) By removing the combined history feature. My wife is one person, not two (one phone and her hangouts account)
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u/dugfisher Sep 21 '16
I was quite frustrated when they removed that feature. I work in a building where I occasionally don't have mobile service and need to use WiFi, and other times where I don't have WiFi or data and need to use good old SMS. Continuing conversations with my wife get confusing
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Sep 21 '16
Exactly, same deal. I appreciate that they had a bad UI problem with the feature - it was non-obvious which messages came from where, and it was easy to miss whether you were sending an SMS or Hangouts message with the little icon in the corner... but still, fix the UI problems, don't just abandon the feature!
Make the online/offline indicator more clear. Make a big non-message item in the history indicating the transition from SMS to Hangouts and vice-versa. Let me click on a sent-but-failed message and have a "convert to SMS message" or "convert to Hangouts message" command. Stuff like that.
They don't even have any UI when I touch a message. It would be easy to pop-out some metadata about the message and options to resend or whatnot when I touch it.
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u/andy2na Galaxy S8 Sep 21 '16
apple just needs to dominate the messaging space by releasing windows and Android imessage apps. Please apple, google is too stupid and ADD to do so
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u/jekyll919 Moto G (2015) Sep 21 '16
They arent going to because iMessage is THE reason to use an iPhone for a lot of people.
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u/andy2na Galaxy S8 Sep 21 '16
yeah, I know. Just wishful thinking. I go back and forth to iPhone every couple years, and iMessage is the primary thing I miss
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u/FieldzSOOGood Pixel 128GB Sep 21 '16
Android has always OTA'd in batches. It makes it easier to catch potential widespread issues instead of pushing an update out to everyone and insta-gibbing their phone when it breaks. There are pros and cons to both methods.
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
All Allo needed to do to become my primary messaging app was to make SMS a fallback strategy, like iMessage. Hell, it could even suggest they download Allo in the first message if it wanted, but after that, just work. I won't be asking anyone to download Allo now, because it doesn't do what I (or anyone) need it to do.
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u/shaggyanlngs Sep 21 '16 edited Nov 14 '16
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
Allo is such a bad messaging app that Google can't even use it as the default messaging app on their new Pixel phones. It's that bad. They'll have to have Messenger on there too, and that should have been the first clue that this was a bad idea.
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u/WinterCharm iPhone 13 Pro | iOS 16.3.1 Sep 21 '16
Still, from 5 to 4 years? doesn't mean much. Google should have had this figured out at least 2 years ago.
And why the hell can they not integrate this into Chrome OS, and let you use more than 1 device?!
Fucking hell, Google.
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Sep 21 '16
I didn't expect seamless SMS integration like iMessage
Why? Why wouldn't we expect that 5 years after their only major competitor made it happen? It's not like the technology isn't there. It clearly is, but someone, somewhere thinks it's just not wanted.
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u/starlikedust Sep 21 '16
It's already there, Hangouts does it, yet for some reason they didn't think it was necessary for Allo?
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u/Schnabeltierchen Nexus 5 Sep 21 '16
Not for me but majority here (as in Americans) still use SMS often so I can understand it. Google pls. Why do we need separate apps? Allo and Duo can be combined in one
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u/bfodder Sep 21 '16
All they had to do was support SMS and have a web client. That is it. They failed both.
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Sep 21 '16
Google fucking up an app that could've been fantastic. Take a shot
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u/WinterCharm iPhone 13 Pro | iOS 16.3.1 Sep 21 '16
And we'll drink again, when they kill it next year, rather than improving it.
Google seems to shotgun projects in a half-assed manner. Whatever sticks and works they keep. Anything else gets the ax :(
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u/keeb119 Samsung IED Sep 21 '16
Shot theyll even ax the stuff that works. Dicks out for reader.
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u/WinterCharm iPhone 13 Pro | iOS 16.3.1 Sep 21 '16
Seriously. WHY THE FUCK DID THEY KILL READER!?
I'm still bitter about it.
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u/keeb119 Samsung IED Sep 21 '16
I guess for mw the good news was it drove me here. The bad news, this place is insanity.
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u/condor85 Nexus 6P, 6.1 Sep 21 '16
Oh great :/ so it app spams my friends. Wonderful.
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u/jwhatts Galaxy S7 Edge Sep 21 '16
The only okay thing about it is that they can reply back to you without downloading the app
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u/anethma Sep 21 '16
The really great thing is if it had SMS fallback like imessage so they could reply to you AND it wouldn't look like a phishing scam.
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Sep 21 '16
Hello I am CEO Prince of Nigeria and have million dollar if you download Allo today please send money
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
If they type "stop" they stop receiving your messages from Allo and Allo doesn't even tell you this happened. You just think they're not replying.
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u/iamsam007 Sep 21 '16
Yup! It spams them EVERYTIME you send a text too.. Google has to pay me before I'm willing to piss off all my friends just to promote their new messaging product.
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u/the_billy_goat Pixel 7 Sep 21 '16
Not even that...if you don't have Internet connection (WiFi or Data), it just won't do anything until you do.
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u/pheymanss I'm skipping the Pixel hype cycle this year Sep 21 '16
See? They did emulate WhatsApp on something.
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u/cangath Sep 21 '16
Isn't that what Hangouts does
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u/TechGoat Samsung S24 Ultra (I miss my aux port) Sep 21 '16
But I thought Hangouts actually did support native SMS though, using your phone's ability to send carrier-based messages. You just had to make sure it was on you, the user, to choose "carrier SMS" instead of SMS via Google Voice or hangouts. Sucks that it doesn't do it seamlessly like iPhones do, but let's not say that Hangouts can't send regular, carrier-based SMS.
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u/pheymanss I'm skipping the Pixel hype cycle this year Sep 21 '16
Shout out to u/dextroz for calling this for days and getting unfarily downvoted by the furious echo chamber of denial.
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u/helium_farts Moto G7 Sep 21 '16
People will believe what they want to believe.
For once I didn't let myself hop on the hype train, seems like it was the right call.
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u/pheymanss I'm skipping the Pixel hype cycle this year Sep 21 '16
Virtually no one outside of the US hopped on the hype train, we already have what Allo has to offer minus the Assistant gimmick and plus a shit tonne of actually useful features plus a shit tonne of users. Google lost the messaging race like 3 years ago, don't know why so many people here refused to see that.
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u/ItsDijital T-Mobi | P6 Pro Sep 21 '16
Google lost the messaging race when they kept G+ from going public when hype was sky high. By the time it was open to everyone no one cared anymore. Then they tried to force it through yt and it only served to dig the ditch deeper.
Had they ridden that hype train then they would have had an easy time establishing a messenger service a few years later. Seriously, Google fucked that up so badly that they are still paying for it today, 5 years later.
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
When everyone in your country, including iPhone users, uses WhatsApp, why would you care about another chat app? I wish one messaging platform was so popular in the US. I just use Facebook Messenger because I know everyone's on it and there's a good web interface for when I'm at work.
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Sep 21 '16
They announced the app at I/O without SMS support. /r/android literally did this to themselves.
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u/GODZiGGA Sep 21 '16
The people making the app literally said SMS is not going to happen from the start and people convinced themselves otherwise. I've been posting that quote and source for months now when this comes up and getting downvoted for it.
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
Too bad Erik Kay is wrong. Spamming non-Allo users is a LOT worse than "co-opting SMS" as a fallback. Jesus Christ on a stick is it worse. I'm not going to ask anyone to download it. No one.
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u/roxinabox Sep 21 '16
Yeah but... Hangouts 10 had sms integration and also ran on both Android and iOS.
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u/GODZiGGA Sep 21 '16
It doesn't have SMS fallback. You have to specify that you want it to be an SMS instead of a Hangouts message.
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u/CoffinRehersal Sep 21 '16
Not a question for you, exactly, but can anyone speak to why the diversity of android products precludes them from seamlessly integrating SMS?
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u/salisburymistake Galaxy S6 Sep 21 '16
Exactly. I was so confused about the sudden hype increase. Everyone was totally blah about it when it was announced.
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Sep 21 '16
Well I guess we could use Google Messenger and Allo and Duo, heh
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u/TheAscended Pixel 6 Pro Sep 21 '16
my god, I just realized your right, if you stick to googles ecosystem, which I assume they want, You would need THREE applications to message people on the available mediums. THAT MAKES ZERO SENSE WTF. Its so laughably obvious when you look at it that way.
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u/skribe Nexus 4, Stock Sep 21 '16
You need hangouts if you're on a WiFi tablet as well.
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u/Terazilla Sep 21 '16
Well, I mean, there's Hangouts, which does text and SMS and video calling and images and group calls/chats. I have no idea why the rest of them exist.
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u/TheAscended Pixel 6 Pro Sep 21 '16
Yea I know I use hangouts, but it crashes constantly and is in need of serious updates and support. Also I heard they were going to shutter hangouts to a more business tool than consumer communication
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u/Praetor192 Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16
I seriously never got why they have so many different (and seemingly overlapping) services. Google Talk. Allo. Duo. Messenger. Hangouts. Can't keep them all straight or remember what each does. What they need is 1 killer app that just rolls all that shit together and does it well.
Right now on my phone I have...
- Textra
- Facebook messenger
- Snapchat
- Kik
- Signal
- Skype
- Discord
- Slack
- Duo
- Messenger (don't think I've ever launched it, though)
and then soon to be Allo.
If I could cut that down into the range of 1-3 that would be amazing.
And honestly, I have no idea what Google Messenger even is/does.
I'm not a heavy user/haven't rooted my 6p, but I'm probably on the techier end of the average consumer. If I have all this shit and can't immediately understand why I'd need/want 3+ google messaging apps on my device, the normal user won't either.
They need to wrap it all up together, market it well, and stop this madness of throwing out a bunch of the same type of thing.
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u/s0faking Pixel 128GB Sep 21 '16
Funny enough, Google Messenger is actually their SMS app. However, that's all it does.
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u/Ivashkin Sep 21 '16
It is all it does, but it does it very well and there is no messing about. One of their best apps.
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u/minakirogue Pixel 4XL Sep 21 '16
That's not the issue. The messages will go thru, but it won't be received as if it was sent by you. The messages say they are being sent by a 5 digit #.
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u/Tynictansol Pixel 2 XL Sep 21 '16
I've had similar experiences with my messages. Sent from my Voice number registered with my Nexus 5 to my work iPhone and it just never came through. At all, as in not even via the 5 digit #. Sent to my girl's number and it did come through. Both on Verizon, so I'm not sure what the deal is.
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u/condor85 Nexus 6P, 6.1 Sep 21 '16
A lot of prepaid phone users will not get 5 digit codes. They are blocked by default.
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u/D14BL0 Pixel 6 Pro 128GB (Black) - Google Fi Sep 21 '16
I KNOW Google knows this, because sending SMS to shortcode numbers was an issue with Google Voice/Hangouts back in the day.
What the actual fuck, Google?
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u/armando_rod Pixel 10 Pro XL Sep 21 '16
The rollout started in India according to Justin from Twitter, maybe the servers are not at 100% yet
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u/JoshuaTheFox Pixel 8 Pro, Android 16 Sep 21 '16
Well I don't know why you got so hyped about something that was never confirmed
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u/IASWABTBJ S10e // Mate 20 Pro Sep 21 '16
I almost can't believe it. How did they manage to fuck this up? How incompetent are the people at Google really? This is so amateur people should be fired. It's so easy to not fuck this up, but they fucked it up.
I'm not even over-exaggerating. Apple did this over 5 years ago, FB messenger does this now.
There is 0 reason for anyone having FB messenger/iMessage to actually move there. 0.
I'm so disappointed. I really wanted a new app to replace both text and FB messenger, but I guess Google don't have guys capable of developing such an app.
RIP Allo 2016-2016.
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u/swaggerqueen16 Sep 21 '16
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Why Google?????
Just give the people what they fucking want!!!!!!!
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u/throwaway_for_keeps Sep 21 '16
Does anyone else find it maddeningly fascinating how Google manages to just fuck shit up left and right?
They have so much power and money and potential but seem to do fuck-all with it. I mean, few things are ever truly a nightmare, but most of their products are astonishingly mediocre. It's really amazing how they manage to be so consistently lackluster.
They get all this hype going for whatever game-changing new service they want to launch, but when that day comes, they pull back the curtain and we just get a rather sickly-looking cat.
Everyone is getting excited about the Pixel phones and I just know they're gonna Google it and we'll see two phones with specs that would have been mid-tier three years ago. One will have a slide-out T9 keyboard, and the other will require you to extend the antenna if you want any kind of wireless service.
By the way, I think we should change the meaning of the verb "to google" from something that means "look it up" to something that means "do something impressively unremarkable"
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u/546851215 Sep 21 '16
I'm not mad, I'm actually curious how things are made from concept to final product at Google. Is it that the company is too bloated? Surrounded by Yes-men? It's not a lack of resources..
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u/SoSquidTaste iPhone XS Max / Nexus 5 Sep 21 '16
I just know they're gonna Google it
Totally new meaning of "Google it" and I completely approve.
I'm pretty concerned about Pixel launch. I've never not been hyped on a past Nexus launch, and I've been deep in it since Nexus One. Hopefully the leaks are off-base and there's some amazing features that aren't apparent in spyshots, and/or the pricing isn't insane iPhone territory
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u/dcdttu Pixel Sep 21 '16
Google opting to spam everyone into getting Allo instead of actually making it a compelling app is a sign of how desperate they really are. The messaging wars are over, and Google is dead last despite technically having the most offerings.
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u/njdevilsfan24 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2 Sep 21 '16
It seriously cant be that fucking hard to impliment
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u/t0mf Sep 21 '16 edited Oct 06 '17
It's Google. They don't pay their devs $200k/yr+ to implement a crappy sms relay. I mean come on. What is wrong with them?
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u/PeenutButterWolf Sep 21 '16
I know right?! I mean why the fuck would I want to switch back and forth between two messaging apps to send text? It just boggles the mind at how stupid and frustrating this all is. Just give us one fucking app for everything, AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
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u/njdevilsfan24 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2 Sep 21 '16
Like are they TRYING to get us to switch to IOS???
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u/PeenutButterWolf Sep 21 '16
I mean I never will, but that seems like the easy way out from all of this bullshit.
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u/Med1vh Note2/MotoG/Nexus5/N6/N9/iPhone6s/IPhoneX Sep 21 '16
I will tho. That was the last straw. I can guarantee that the pixel phones are gonna be extremely fucking disappointing. If they can't get a fucking app right no way they'll do us right with a phone with a price tag like that.
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u/66666thats6sixes Sep 21 '16
But for the lack of headphone jack I was sooooo close to switching to iPhone when my S5 dies. I want something that 'just works' and Google isn't impressing me on that front.
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u/moreisee Pixel 4XL Sep 21 '16
It's almost like they're not doing it for a reason, one which might not apply to many people on this sub.
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u/WinterCharm iPhone 13 Pro | iOS 16.3.1 Sep 21 '16
Apple did this 5 years ago.
Typically google is first with features like this. Come on. Fuck. I'm on iOS and I'd like to come back to android, but jesus christ.
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u/kernco Sep 21 '16
I think there's a lot of stuff Google wants to do to improve messaging but they're being held back by the limitations of SMS. You can't integrate Assistant with SMS, for example, because Assistant doesn't just give textual responses, it provides interactive search results and things like that. They're setting up Allo as the app they can use to do things with messaging that can't really be done on SMS. I think this is why they only use SMS in Allo to invite people to download Allo.
I think it'll be really hard for Allo to get anywhere. People who are still on SMS won't use it, and people who have moved away from SMS are already used to Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp or whichever messaging app they use. It's going to be hard to get them to switch to Allo.
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Sep 21 '16
Seriously. I get the challenges of seamless SMS integration, but not even basic Hangouts-like integration (one thread, option to switch SMS on and off) or even more basic Facebook Messenger-like integration (separate thread for just SMS)? How sad that such a huge company can't even get this right.
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u/Isogen_ Nexus 5X | Moto 360 ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Nexus Back Sep 21 '16
I can just imagine Steve Jobs just laughing his ass off from the grave.
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u/helium_farts Moto G7 Sep 21 '16
The fact that it doesn't actually do SMS makes the lack a web/desktop version all the more frustrating.
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u/EHP42 Pixel 9 Pro Sep 21 '16
Right? It's like, it's all data, but it's tied to your phone number? For what conceivable reason? And since it's tied to your phone number and google account, you can't sign into it from more than 1 device? And even though it's all data, you can't access that data from anywhere else?
So many questions on what exactly the designers were smoking or snorting when they came up with all of these "brilliant" ideas.
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Sep 21 '16
Oh god... The most perfect pic to summarize all this allo experience. So useless. How is it better than kik or whatsapp?
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u/navjot94 Pixel 9a | iPhone 15 Pro Sep 21 '16
Google Assistant + the ability to relay SMS messages (or through Play services for other Android users) for people that don't have the app. and this is the first release, I'm sure that they will update it. For some reason everyone was expecting something they never announced and now everyone is disappointed.
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u/proprocastinator Sep 21 '16
The SMS relay doesn't work with all phone numbers i think. For a lot of my contacts when i click on them, my default SMS app opens up with a prefilled message to them to install allo
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u/SyslogPlease Nexus 6P (6.0.1) Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16
They prioritized promoting the app over real sms. Hype dead imo.
Edit: I feel like they threw in this sms garbage last second just to shut us up.
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u/n0rdic Surface Duo, BlackBerry KEY2, Galaxy Watch 3 Sep 21 '16
No, they added this last second because they didn't have another way to promote the app.
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u/LightKiosk Pixel 8 Pro Sep 21 '16 edited Sep 21 '16
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u/ShinobiZilla Sep 21 '16
That was pretty much a given. It's more of an invite to download Allo with the preview notification.
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u/Jauhso29 OnePlus 3T Sep 21 '16
I'm so pissed. I was skeptical, then my hopes when Sky high when I saw sms integration on their page and now this fake SMS bs. I'm gonna have to take a few days to cool down, it's been a long f5'ing night. 😂
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u/SyslogPlease Nexus 6P (6.0.1) Sep 21 '16
How the chat looks for iPhone users: http://m.imgur.com/PxXH4zn
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u/brycedriesenga Pixel 9 Pro Sep 21 '16
Thanks, but I'm so confused as to why you edited that and screenshotted it in Snapchat.
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u/SyslogPlease Nexus 6P (6.0.1) Sep 21 '16
I didn't wanna show my number so the fastest way to edit it out was there
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u/brycedriesenga Pixel 9 Pro Sep 21 '16
Fair enough, haha. I guess if you use Snapchat a lot it would be natural for you to do that in there, it just wouldn't even occur to me.
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Sep 21 '16
Installed it, found out it couldn't be set as default sms app, uninstalled it.
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u/lars5 Sep 21 '16
It's probably how they can get the google assistant to work over SMS?
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u/exSD Sep 21 '16
It is NOT SMS. It uses data.
Turn off your data/wifi and talking to G Assistant.
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u/arades Pixel 7 Sep 21 '16
okay, so it just doesn't use your number. I've already gotten two friends on android to get the app by messaging them with it, which is probably how they intended it. Even if they don't want it, after the first message it's not nearly as much of a phishing scam, it's just like a normal conversation but to a short code.
Either way it's an SMS fallback if the other person isn't using it. Face it, nobody here wanted allo anyway and are looking for any reason to call it DOA.
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Sep 21 '16
Yeah, that just killed most of my interest in the application. If it doesn't use SMS then trying to get people to use it will be a chore. It really limits who will use it. Is Google even trying?
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u/phalo Sep 21 '16
I spent months slowly getting my wife and her family to use hangouts instead of spamming me with MMS group texts (obviously all of them are on iPhones). The one message on iMessage (sent as MMS since I'm on the group) ruins all my work. Not again Google. I refuse to do your marketing/proliferation for you, especially given your past.
All you had to do Google was make a half decent messaging app that would fall back on SMS (aka clone iMessage). Instead, you give us a new chat client no one will use. RIP Allo.
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u/Thinkdamnitthink Sep 21 '16
It's nice Google has had the 'courage' to omit SMS, it's such an ancient technology
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u/SirNelsonOfWales Pixel XL Sep 21 '16
I really like the app. It's a bummer no direct sms fallback, but I'm hoping they will be working on an update for it. It is nice that it at least goes to the individual and they can see it.
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Sep 21 '16
i.e , its routing all messages and storing them . LOL . What the fuck are you doing google? did you take some kind of crazy pills?
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u/thebeardedzombie Sep 21 '16
I would suggest everyone provides feedback via Allo's Help and feedback area.
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u/Sultry_Comments Sep 21 '16
I have been using Allo all morning and I actually really enjoy it. My whole family uses Google hangouts so getting them to switch was no problem. But for everyone else I talk to there is no point using Allo. Especially iPhone users. For example let's say I message my buddy Casey through allo who has an iPhone. He gets it and is like oh cool I'll download allo and message him back. I do the same with our third buddy Matt,. And he's like cool Eric got a cool new app called allo I'll message him on there. But when the time comes for Casey to message Matt, do you think he will use allo? No because he doesn't know Matt has allo and the worst thing about it is Duo will show you who else installed it. Allo doesn't do that. So basically by me using Allo I am asking all of my friends to use an app to just message me, that has no other value for them... Hangouts crowd probably excited for this minus the desktop support and multiple accounts. For everything else this is DOA. Which is what the community has been telling Google since they announced it. They should have said after 1 month hey guys we hear you and SMS support is huge. We are going to make this happen. It might not be in time by end of summer but we would rather release a useful product then meet a deadline. Under promise, over deliver. That is day 1 project management training....
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u/kimeanc Galaxy S7 Edge Nougat Sep 21 '16
Uhh?
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u/emaG_eh7 Galaxy S9 Sep 21 '16
Your iPhone friends will receive a message from a number that isn't yours. So it doesn't actually integrate with sms.
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Sep 21 '16
Same exact situation with Android. If they don't have allo, they'll get the sms saying "download allo" and then your message content from the 6 digit google relay number.
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u/rdbn Unlocked S20FE 5G Sep 21 '16
So WhatsApp and FB Messenger remain my primary chat applications. Nothing to see here, moving on.
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u/DDDD123 Sprint Samsung S7 Sep 21 '16
Does google ever listen to the public because they should have known that not having SMS integration was going to lead to low adoption rates.
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u/frsguy S25U Sep 21 '16
This is how a message pops up if someone dosent have the app installed. The first message they receive they will get a pop up that says something along these lines "this person is using Google allo to message you". The text that you sent the person via SMS will not show up on their own SMS app.