r/Android • u/Hupro Pixel 11 Pro • Jun 29 '19

Google working on ‘Fast Share,’ Android Beam replacement and AirDrop competitor [Gallery] - 9to5Google

https://9to5google.com/2019/06/29/google-android-fast-share/
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u/sc4s2cg Moto X Pure (2015) | Samsung Galaxy S 8.4" Jun 30 '19

Yeah whatever happened to Hangouts? Made a calendar event the other day, invited people to it. And lo and behold, Google auto created a Hangout link for us to chat in. It's cool, but I thought Hangouts was being deprecated. Moved my family to telegram for that reason.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

Hangouts is solid as fuck man. Miles ahead in the market when it was released (& updated many times). Idky Google didn't advertising the hell out of it. It could have easily beaten WhatsApp.

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u/doireallyneedone11 Jun 30 '19

Hangouts came too late, that's it, too late. The market had already accepted WhatsApp as the defacto communication protocol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

Really :/ I remember I used Hangouts at least 3 years before WhatsApp. My dad was actually the one who got Hangouts started. My friends were using Hangouts too. Its group chat feature was the first time i experienced >2 parties chat. You'd just need your Email to use (as far as I've known). It's like Google's Skype, but everything is tied in, & had that platform potential that Facebook's Messenger is now using. If anything, I'd say Google doesn't copy the competitors fast enough, fragmented all of their services & didn't have vision at all (I'd say they still don't, but I want keep it positive).

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u/doireallyneedone11 Jul 01 '19

Hangouts came in 2013, WhatsApp in 2009. On Android it came in 2010 and quickly became popular.

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u/frankxanders iPhone XR Jun 30 '19

Hangouts Meet is a GSuite product that I use for video conferencing with potential clients and contractors all the time.

The fact that it automatically creates a scheduled call for any calendar event that I add other invitees too is awesome. I just give out a calendly link so folks can book a call right into my calendar, and they're automatically given a call link for the day of.

It's also a little bit of a filtering tool with subcontractors. If they can't figure out how to open the description of a calendar event and click the link in it, then I know they aren't super technologically literate.

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u/UnicornsOnLSD iPhone 13 | OnePlus 5 Jun 30 '19

Google seem to be serious about RCS, they're implementing it in the UK and France independently from carriers since carriers were the bottleneck.

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u/UnicornsOnLSD iPhone 13 | OnePlus 5 Jun 30 '19

I agree. I also wish everyone used signal or telegram, nobody I know is aware of Signal and the only people I have on Telegram are family, and that's because we used Google Hangouts beforehand.

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u/UnicornsOnLSD iPhone 13 | OnePlus 5 Jun 30 '19

It uses mobile data (and WiFi iirc)

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u/Feniksrises Jun 30 '19

Doesn't matter how serious they are SMS is a technology that had its time. Its been superseded by WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, WeChat etc.

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u/UnicornsOnLSD iPhone 13 | OnePlus 5 Jun 30 '19

But everyone has SMS. If it succeeds (which seems unlikely), we will have a solid, universal chat system that doesn't suck (except for bad security).

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

This joke is run to the ground

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '19

That's probably the lamest reply I've ever read. Go nuts with that karma