Assuming this is aimed at business use: good, but too little too late.
Tacking on chat features isn’t going to bring businesses back from Slack and Teams. The ship has sailed. Email exists as a lowest common denominator and a way for lead generators to harass people who don’t actually make procurement decisions.
The bit that kills me is that “make Google Chat not suck” doesn’t seem to be in the list of options for addressing this problem at all. I work for a company that uses GSuite and chat is universally loathed with a bunch of Slack instances running around the company, both sanctioned and unsanctioned. If they spent time working to improve chat, the momentum of being a GSuite company would carry the rest of the weight here. It doesn’t have to be better than Slack, just closer.
Assuming this is aimed at business use: good, but too little too late.
Tacking on chat features isn’t going to bring businesses back from Slack and Teams. The ship has sailed. Email exists as a lowest common denominator and a way for lead generators to harass people who don’t actually make procurement decisions.
Email won’t die but it’s on indefinite LTS.
hahah thats exactly what this is. they got caught with their pants down on slack and now theyll never get market share.
The bit that kills me is that “make Google Chat not suck” doesn’t seem to be in the list of options for addressing this problem at all. I work for a company that uses GSuite and chat is universally loathed with a bunch of Slack instances running around the company, both sanctioned and unsanctioned. If they spent time working to improve chat, the momentum of being a GSuite company would carry the rest of the weight here. It doesn’t have to be better than Slack, just closer.
or they’re trying to turn (g)mail into a shitty, high-latency, unreliable alternative to imessage.
Still sounds better than iMessage 🤷♂️
What do you mean email is on life support?