Google developing all-in-one messaging app for businesses

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Great, yet another Google messaging service I can be disappointed about when they randomly decide to shut it down.

Google is notorious for dropping it's free services. But this is obviously something they want to add to their office suite of google apps.

Apples and oranges

It's interesting to see the luke warm reaction to this and compare it to 10? years ago. Just the mention of Google moving into a new space back then seemed like a good send. Now... Not so much

As this sarcastic article from Ars Technica points out this is Google's 10th messaging App and the second slack clone.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/report-google-planni...

I use Twist by Todoist and one of the downsides is there is no built-in video chat.

It looks great. Do you like it better than Slack?

It has its downsides, like I think the sender-chosen notifications over receiver-chosen notification was a mistake.

But at this point I would give my firstborn child to have real threads, and it does have that.

So I like it much better.

I'm trialing using Twist together with Miro, and it is pretty magical.

Twist busts silos just as Slack can, but with less "notification firehose" potential, and then defaulting to Miro's visual board when upgrading to synchronous comms works really great.

...in an attempt to take out Slack. Something that a monopoly would do.

and Microsoft Teams

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