Jasonisms

#Hangouts is still a far superior app when compared to #Allo. In order to streamline our efforts further, we will be retiring the Google+ Hangouts API that enables developers to build apps for the older version of Hangouts video calls. This API was originally intended to support social scenarios for consumer users as part of Google+, whereas Hangouts is now turning to focus on enterprise use cases. http://betanews.com/2017/01/07/google-closes-hangouts-api/?_utm_source=1-2-2

I'd been wondering about this ever since Google released #Allo to the world yesterday. Allo, for those of you who don't already know, is a new chat-messaging app by Google focused on end users while they divert attention from Hangouts to an enterprise only solution a la Skype, GoToMeeting and others. The one differentiating factor between Allo and the other messaging apps out there such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber is Google's new Assistant feature. In short, the Assistant built into Allo is an AI (artificial intelligence) you and I, and everyone else who uses Allo, will be training. You get a messaging app that competes directly with Hangouts and Google receives free crowd sourced learning for its AI. But, in order for that AI to work, everything you share through Allo needs to run through Google's servers and that's where Edward Snowden's warning comes into play. The FBI, or any policing agency, really, can subpoena your records on Google's servers w...

If internet communication privacy is important to you then this is good news. #Allo #encryption https://www.wired.com/2016/05/allo-duo-google-finally-encrypts-conversations-end-end/?mbid=social_gplus&_utm_source=1-2-2