{"id":15775,"date":"2020-05-07T14:30:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5f522bef4c2ea73841f1e4aa5d859642"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:30:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:30:34","slug":"google-unifies-all-of-its-messaging-and-communication-apps-into-a-single-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=15775","title":{"rendered":"Google unifies all of its messaging and communication apps into a single team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/7\/21250790\/google-android-messaging-duo-phone-g-suite-javier-soltero-hangouts-chat\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Oh yes google, another reorg will surely fix your wasteland of fragmented, ill-conceived, and no longer trustworthy due to repeated shutdowns messaging situation.  \r\nUntil I hear them addressing it from the perspective of \"We want to reward engineers who spend their energy maintaining core services, rather than only for working on shiny new things\" I don't see a plausible way for them to fix their shit.<\/div><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/FlZTEgt8aeEqVk3eTTPSVkqnpYI=\/0x0:1530x1020\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/66765660\/duooneplus2.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><p>In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite, its set of office apps and &mdash; importantly for today&rsquo;s news &mdash; Google Meet and Google Chat. Now, the company is putting him in charge of yet another set of products: Messages, Duo, and the phone app on Android. <\/p>\n<p>The move puts all of Google&rsquo;s major communication products under one umbrella: Soltero&rsquo;s  team. Soltero tells me that there are no immediate plans to change or integrate any of Google&rsquo;s apps, so don&rsquo;t get your hopes up for that (yet). &ldquo;We believe people make choices around the products that they use for specific purposes,&rdquo; Soltero says. <\/p>\n<p>Still, Google&rsquo;s communications apps are in dire need of a more coherent and opinionated production development,...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/5\/7\/21250790\/google-android-messaging-duo-phone-g-suite-javier-soltero-hangouts-chat\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of last year, Google hired Javier Soltero to be the VP and GM of G Suite, its set of off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=15775\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}