After Hangout failures. .. Lets see how this goes

[quote author=Vorpal post=49552844]How many chat apps do one actually need? [/quote

You need 666 chat apps to ]

iceberryose:
Superb app
Funny too

is that the app?

Shame on whatsap, shebi dem dey brag for blackberry users. Lobatan!!!! Water Don pass garri. Wey my bb users make dem press like and share

if Google can remove "whatsapp online features" and add 2go "online features"
it will an added advantage.

once u r using whatsapp everybody knows you are online just like Facebook messenger.

2go only when you login then you can chose the offline option if you want to be invisible but you can still be chatting.

i stop enjoying whatsapp when Facebook bought it... I even delete my number from Facebook, then now I heard/saw that Facebook automatically copy your fb contact to your whatsapp (number if it's the same with the one in facebook)... check your favourite and see it

hehehehe....lets go there google

Very true. Very intrusive. On my birthday Google search displayed a birthday logo on the search engine as if I begged them.

ROCE:
Between Google and Facebook, I do not know which one is more intrusive. They want to sync all your data, even your blood group. Bikonu, e don do!

Malakh:
the mark of the beast cant work without Google, so truly Google will be a tool to enslave the world

How myopic?

Rozaystunna:
is that the app?

Yes

zizie:
Very true. Very intrusive. On my birthday Google search displayed a birthday logo on the search engine as if I begged them.

Google still has options of clearing your online/internet activities, so even when Google still have them in their stored server, the public can't search and see it.
but Facebook is just learning /poor when it comes to privacy because if you increase privacy then it defeats the whole essence of "Facebook" itself.

martineinstein:
they stopped the consumer version and restricted it to enterprise

ohh. thanks for d info

bigt2:

He went to the club and got a hang Over

hopefully this one doesn't follow suit

iceberryose:
Yes

its not yet available on play store

YonkijiSappo:
Sorry but Google has lost the battle before the fight even begins.

Don't be too quick to judge o, people do get bored eventually and are always open to new tech & apps.

Least I forget, there's also talk of integrating both Allo & Duo into the Android os itself, that move alone could be WhatsApp/Skype/IMO killer

Platinumay:
If I hear that lie again, video chat on slow network ko, am patiently waiting and watching in 3D, will be here to analyze this copy cat called Google when I finally get the app. And am quite sure it can't be free I mean the advance features. Google is known for that

I've tried Duo, the video is definitely clearer & had better connection than that of IMO which happens to be the rave among Nigerian youths ATM.

On the contrary Google doesn't charge, name a Google service that is paid for directly by the end user?

Kayswat:
Shame on whatsap, shebi dem dey brag for blackberry users. Lobatan!!!! Water Don pass garri. Wey my bb users make dem press like and share

But bb non join the league na

What really would i need this for again? When i have iMessage , whatsapp, instagram, twitter, skype, vine.. this allo thing will just be a space killer on my phone. Google should work on something much better and not social apps. Something like collaborating with oems world wide to watch YouTube videos unlimitedly or cheaper.

Vorpal:


You can't make phone calls with allo, WhatsApp can.
And with WhatsApp having over 1billion users it could still add those features of allo and best it.

Why just make ordinary calls when you can make video calls? I guess you haven't heard about Google Duo?
Duo & Allo are complementary, if infused into Android os am sure you can figure what will happen

Dapsonemmanuel:
Pretty sure its not going to be as widely used as whatsapp .. I think this app is just waste of time .. God help them if they get users ... But seriously why is every friggin new app created always based on android and iPhones .. Wtf .. Isn't lumia not worth it??

i guess u mean microsoft.Just wait till the universal app development reaches a year.haha.and any new app will have to run first on microsoft

JeffreyJames:
The app is not out yet sef.

i already out but nah, not a game changer or anything.

amagunnerfan:
It is market share thing. How many people use lumia?

but u have a pc and it either runs win 8 or 10?.think of windows universal app.that app gap will be dead

somehowpenis:
i already out but nah, not a game changer or anything.

Honestly how many intuitive & self interactive IM are there?
Can't really say this won't be a game changer

martineinstein:
haha,samsung and google nairaland rep is here again......duo is already dead.allo is dead already...dont xpect iphone users to dump imessage for allo;2 billion whatsapp and messenger users to dump ddem for Allo or d chinese to dump wechat.....google is delusional for thinking allo will work.


Xpect les than 2 million allo users in a year time.....ur colleagues in androidcentral and co are already rejecting it

Lol what else from a Microsoft fan. Duo isn't dead like you claim cos I use it virtually every day and it's crisp and pretty nice. It presently has 10 million downloads

I haven't tried Allo so I don't much to say but from the review its pretty nice and the Google assistant makes it a plus. However, it will be easier fr people to download if Google can embed sms into. Google knows exactly what to do and that's integrating these apps in the core OS without needing any downloads in order not to look like a 3rd party app.


Big G should allow it to be easily used in other devices including desktop. This will aid it's usage speedily

This is some serious development in data mining department of Google. Keep posting ur selfies,hobies, family, friends, tansanctions & all ur life online so dat Google, Windows 10 & android can see everything u do & control ur whole life.

I so pity homo-sapiens even ur handset & laptop dey spy on you with that front camera whenever ur online

CHESTER48:
but u have a pc and it either runs win 8 or 10?.think of windows universal app.that app gap will be dead

Thought this universal app stuff launched with Windows 10 & it's mobile version?
People won't dump their Android & Apple phones just coz they want to have a streamlined mobile version of their pc apps. The average users wants to drawn the line between PC and smartphone

Ports to Google alo and all the google...

Zuckergbish u see yourself? See what you have done to whattsapp now people will shift to Google app rather than sell their phones and buy new once especially my people who some have not eating for sometime now because they voted "change" God help my people o. Send their bread even without butter and give Zom-bie medication to the Zom-bies and even anti-zom-bie to those who are gaining their sense back a lill bit so they don't slip back into "Zom-beism" again.

somehowpenis:
i already out but nah, not a game changer or anything.

This assistant is a beast.

nortcentrallord:
Ports to Google alo and all the google...

Zuckergbish u see yourself? See what you have done to whattsapp now people will shift to Google app rather than sell their phones and buy new once especially my people who some have not eating for sometime now because they voted "change" God help my people o. Send their bread even without butter and give Zom-bie medication to the Zom-bies and even anti-zom-bie to those who are gaining their sense back a lill bit so they don't slip back into "Zom-beism" again.

You think it will be released for blackberry and windows phone?

ollah2:


This assistant is a beast.

He must be pissed coz peeps refuse to join the Windows phone bandwagon, am sure he'll come around

somehowpenis:
What really would i need this for again? When i have iMessage , whatsapp, instagram, twitter, skype, vine.. this allo thing will just be a space killer on my phone. Google should work on something much better and not social apps. Something like collaborating with oems world wide to watch YouTube videos unlimitedly or cheaper.

Social platform isn't a Google thing like they have had bad past from acquiring meebo and killing it to photovine, Google plus et al. But I like their spirit of fighting. These two apps are pretty good but they came late to the party. It's better late than never and you never know cos Google might just have a spin with these new guys.

2kurupt:


Thought this universal app stuff launched with Windows 10 & it's mobile version?
People won't dump their Android & Apple phones just coz they want to have a streamlined mobile version of their pc apps. The average users wants to drawn the line between PC and smartphone

nope.Universal app is just an sdk.used to produce apps to run on pc xbox one mobile microsoft surface pro and holo pads.with the massive gap of microsoft windows 10 used by over 200 billion people including me.which means any app released for mobile runs on pc,xbox one mobile etc.makkimg delopers now have chance to build apps for win 10 due to alot of people are now using winows if not lumia it pc.if not pc it the xbox one.

ollah2:


Social platform isn't a Google thing like they have had bad past from acquiring meebo and killing it to photovine, Google plus et al. But I like their spirit of fighting. These two apps are pretty good but they came late to the party. It's better late than never and you never know cos Google might just have a spin with these new guys.

hopefully they do.. but that technology is the very least of what users actually need now.