https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/
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應該是目前最完備的編年史
A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
十六年了小龍女跟楊過都修成正果了，Google 傳訊還沒傳到。
我自己是漏了 Slide's Disco 沒用過
Table of Contents
Google Talk (2005)—Google's first chat service, built on open protocols
Google Talk ran Android's entire push notification system
The slow death of GTalk
Google Voice (2009)—SMS and Phone calls get a dose of the Internet
Google Wave (2009)—An email killer from the future
Nobody knew what Wave was for or how to use it
Google Buzz (2010)—The non-consensual social network
Slide’s Disco (2011)—An independent app escapes the Googleplex
The Google+ Era (2011)—Google's social panic
Google+ Hangouts video chat—The first Hangouts
Google+ Huddle/Messenger—I guess we should have some kind of DM function
A competitor emerges—iMessage has entered the chat
One more competitor—WhatsApp is now worth $22 billion
Google Docs Editor Chat (2013)—Just like Gmail chat, but not integrated
with anything
Google Hangouts (2013)—Google's greatest messaging service
The death of Hangouts, unified Google messaging, and hope
Google Spaces (2016)—A messaging app for Google I/O 2016 attendees
Google Allo (2016)—Google's dead-on-arrival WhatsApp clone
Allo's legacy: The Google Assistant
Google Duo (2016)—A video companion app for... WhatsApp?
Google (Hangouts) Meet (2017)—Not Zoom
YouTube Messages (2017)—Yes, this was really a thing
Google (Hangouts) Chat (2018)—Part 1: Cloning Slack is actually a good
idea
Google Maps Messages (2018)—Business messaging, now with the instability
of Google
Google & RCS (2019)—So we found this dusty old messaging standard in a
closet...
RCS is bad, and anyone who likes it should feel bad
Google Photos Messages (2019)—You get a messaging feature! And YOU! And
you!
Google Stadia Messages (2020)—Two great tastes that taste great together
Google Pay Messages (2021)—We actually learned nothing from Google Allo
Google Assistant Messages (2021)—Text and voice chat, for families?
Google Phone Messaging (2021)—Isn't this going a little too far?
Google Chat, Part 2 (2021)—No wait, this is actually a consumer app now!
Is anyone in charge at Google?