People will keep using WhatsApp, Messengwr and to a lesser extent Telegram. Chat...

pmontra on April 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Andro...

People will keep using WhatsApp, Messengwr and to a lesser extent Telegram. Chat is the nth Google attempt in that space and everybody remembers that the previous ones failed. That memory is all it takes to make this one fail too. The only chance: make it replace the stock Messaging app, the one for SMSes. Then route messages trasparently to the SMS gateway or to RCS.

Eridrus on April 25, 2018 [–]

> The only chance: make it replace the stock Messaging app, the one for SMSes.

This is exactly what is happening.