not like Google has already tried and abandoned several instant messaging options over the years or anything …
At this point they could pay me per message and I wouldn’t use it. I’m not goign to convince people to move just to be rug pulled again.
Instant Messaging, in particular, has been a series of failures of both vision and design by Google.
Yes that’s what Google needs. Another messenger service.
Again…?
Seventh time’s the charm.
I’m so confident that Google is just reskinning the same messaging app
it’s not even IM this time, it’s just email with a different input
2 months later…
This week in technology, Google abandons yet another project. 🤷🏻♂️
This and many other reasons not to use their products. I think more people would appreciate paying $5 or so a month for email that works without ads or invasions of privacy, in addition to avoiding the constant adjustments to Google-style ****ery.
finallly what google has been missing, an instant messenger application/protocol.
thanks google for really finding a gap and filling a need.
I’m so fucking tired of companies trying to “innovative.” Just give me my shitty government provided email service already so I can ignore it like I do snail mail
They don’t even have a desktop app for gmail chat. Whatever they do, they’ll abandon.
Another potential to the google graveyard.
Gmail is a part of Google’s subscription plan. It won’t.
Your right is highly unlikely that Gmail would shutdown. What I mean is this feature they are testing. As for it being under a subscription plan does not mean a Google product has no chance of shutting down. Google proved it with a lot of their products.
No way I’m using a new Google product ever again
This is a feature available in outlook desktop application at least for Mac
The irony is of course that Gmail did used to be essentially an instant messenger until Google decided in their wisdom that on Android you should not be notified immediately you receive a message
I’ve probably got this wrong but I use chat on the Android Gmail app which gives me notifications instantly.
What am I missing?
This is what I was wondering…the “chat” and “spaces” functions are already fully integrated into Gmail and are instant messaging. We used them extensively at my previous place of work. The article seems to be more about Google incentivizing chat-like responses to emails, which would be awful.
You can react to emails with emoji right now. At least on Android.
Which at first I thought “thAts fucking dumb”
But now I can react 👍 instead of sending stupid, loathsome ‘Thanks!’ emails.
But what happens if someone sends you an email from a non-gmail account? Can you react then?
If so, does it just reply to this email with an emoji in the body? Cause then you’re basically just replying in the exact way as before, google just added a quick-reply button with a predefined body.
I’m personally not a fan of nonstandard functionality for something as ubiquitous as email. Email should be exactly the same regardless of the client that’s used.
They get an email that says “foggy@gmail reacted to your email with 👍”
Will they succeed in making even Gmail fail?
I can already see memes with the Gmail icon and the obvious “task failed successfully”XMPP/Jabber says hello. Remember how they used it but didn’t want to allow you to use another Jabber client?
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.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Last month the popular webmail app shipped an emoji reactions bar in the mobile app, where a single tap would send a new email with your emoji response.
Now, a wild new UI experiment spotted by Android Police goes another step further: a quick reply bar that looks just like instant messaging input.
Rather than the usual input block you get for writing paragraphs of overly formal text, this new Gmail experiment has a one-line input bar at the bottom for replies.
An “expand” button will presumably launch the usual compose interface.
So far, this seems to be an extremely rare test that only one person has gotten, so it will not necessarily roll out to everyone.
Given the recent emoji launch, though, Gmail certainly seems jealous of its instant-messaging cousins.
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