GoogleMessagingApps

Context: GoogleEnshittification

A fascinating story of why Google has made so many different messaging apps and why they've all pretty much "failed".

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/a-decade-and-a-half-of-instability-the-history-of-google-messaging-apps/

I'm still processing this. Maybe I've got something more to write about Google PlatformWars in this area.

Or maybe not.

Read that article anyway.

See also :

• IndieWebTools has a lot of new independent messaging apps.