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I can answer some, not all, questions about this. It's a project I'm working on now. Soooo, shoot.
I saw a tweet from @mulligan this morning that was trying to explain the different chat apps. I don't know if this embed link will work (testing)
@jennesaisquoi7 @sacbookreviewer that's just my opinion, not anything official. But it's helpful to think about it that way.
@hayden_evans Totally fair. This time it's a mutli-year, large initiative to firm up the strategy and focus on how people are using it the most. Thinking of it as more doubling down and not pivoting.
I'm a big fan of the GSuite, so, this intrigues me. But our Slack *virtual office* has so many integrations it'd be harder to be replaced by another product. They'll need the same level of integrations.
@annabelleyee most of my integrations allow some data to come from another app into Slack. We use Status Hero, Asana, Jira, Freshdesk, Github, etc.
Since there is no description provided here, this is what provided in the blog
"Hangouts Meet is a new video meeting experience with one goal: make joining meetings effortless so that people can be as productive as they are when they’re face-to-face."
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@raajesh_rp That's for a different product, https://www.producthunt.com/post.... This is basically Google's version of Slack.
@editandrew Thanks, but what I copied was from the page that opened by clicking "More Info" button on top of this page.
@raajesh_rp @editandrew The blog post combines Meet & Chat, if you scroll down you'll see Hangouts Chat 🙂. Perhaps the More Info link should go to https://gsuite.google.com/campai...
*Frustrated* -- it's been a month. No early access for a business customer. What's the deal with an early announcement and no movement. )-:
They can pretty up the language as much as they want, but Google's messenger strategy has been off the rails for a while. I love Google and practically live inside the Google ecosystem, but they keep pushing users from one app to the next, & to the next.. reinventing, merging, unmerging, swapping, & splitting. G-chat, Messages, Messenger, Google Voice, Hangouts, Hangouts with Voice integration, Hangouts without Voice integration (you should use Messenger now), Messenger is now Android Messages, Allo, Duo... I really wish Google would just simplify and focus on a single "Messenger" app for consumers. One of the reasons it's so difficult to get family and friends to move off of apps like Facebook messenger is because in a year from now, I'll have to tell them to switch from Allo to whatever the new Google messenger flavor of the year will be. Just like now, after a couple years of convincing my friends Hangouts is better...
Google's answer to Slack. We are deeply integrated with google's services - we use G-Suite as our office suite - so both Google Meet and now Chat are interesting to us.
Meet has replaced appear.in and I can see Chat become the first Slack challenger we will look at seriously. Google are on their A game at the moment, both with their hardware offerings (huge surprise there) and their services.
@andreasduess seeing as slack's chat aspect is essentially IIRC on steroids (and easily copyable), it will be interesting to see how the integrations element is approached by google and others.
@thejeremycarson Very true. The integration, and willingness to be open, is one of Slack's defining features. Having said that, after an initial flurry of excitement, we have now removed almost all Slack integrations and went back to simplicity.
@andreasduess @thejeremycarson I 100% agree on integrations. Many of them cause productivity decreases as opposed to increases.
@getbrandflakes @andreasduess @thejeremycarson Totally valid, most of the fun integrations are not conducive to a work environment. But I was able to build some integrations at my last job that were super helpful, like the ability to create a bug report from inside Slack that would post to our Pivotal Board. The Slack API has a lot of power if you think of your company Slack as an OS for your team.
I saw the notification "Introducing Slack, by Google" and I almost cried thinking "do companies really have no shame or originality anymore? 😢😭" but glad that isn't the case 🤗.
@khaliphj yea, all the diff product names are incredibly hard to keep track of. hopefully the product itself isn't so confusing-- the deep integration plus gsuite could be a big win.
@owenbossola Agree. It's not necessarily the product names for me, it's just the fact that they all have VERY similar functionality and can be easily combined into one (message+video) or two functioning app (messaging and video seperate)
@khaliphj This is literally them making up their minds. This is them starting to end their ridiculousness. Now they just have to make make sense to people.
@khaliphj @owenbossola The point for separating the two is, like with FB and Messenger, to be able to develop both products independent of each other.
Is it me or they could just have #1 do a big update of Hangouts #2 Just scrap all other options ?
Is more important to have many ways to do team work (Trello, Jira, Asana, Wrike etc) than have a bazillion differents app to chat with our teamworkers. We want kill the email and it's not to replace it with 1000 chats that we are not invited yet or not shared by everybody. That's the beauty of email... everybody have it (still have it).
