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The four horsemen of shitty chat apps (programming.dev)

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Android also has this problem with stock and Google apps. google stopped using the name Google on their apps so now Google contacts is contacts, google clock is clock, etc. so you get two apps for each, one stock and one google except you don't know which is which because they're both called the same name and usually have very similar icons.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Go into Settings > Apps > and there you see the apps internal name. com.google.something is Google app. Disable it and clear cache & data.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Or...they could have a saner, simpler solution for their own OS.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Ah, but it's Google, so, no.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Isn't it fall to the OEM that specifically uses google technology to disable it if they want people to use their version? Android can be used without google after all.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They don't want to.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

On Google's own phones these apps are the stock apps, and afaik OEMs don't have to preinstall ALL of those apps, only the Play ones. Blame other OEMs for making it so confusing.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Three of those are "new"

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

For a while back then, I thought XMPP was going to solve integration between messaging apps. I even wrote a "serverless" multi-player game in college that used a chatroom as a link between game instances.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

People on imessage and messenger could talk to eachother through xmpp for a short while iirc.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

There was a glorious time where I had a single messaging app on my PC with Facebook Messenger contacts, Google Chat contacts, friends using Jabber specifically, and contacts on an IM popular in my country (think MSN).

All together in a single app.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Believe it or not, Windows Phone 7 had that in 2010-2011, right into the OS itself. They integrated it on a per-contact level too, you just clicked on say Craig and had a drop-down to switch which service to message Craig on, but it was a single message history that integrated all the services. It was a damn good mobile OS, way ahead of the curve, easy on resources, slick animations, had UI/UX consistency, accessibility like putting all menus at the bottom of the screen so you can reach them with your thumb, including the damn browser address bar (which only now made it to Edge). But of course, being Microsoft, they fudged it horribly and it died a slow painful death while the head of Windows Phone kept denying it was dead like a damn cult leader.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I too, am a widow of Windows Phone.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Web OS had that all the way back on the original Palm Pre too. One messaging app that included SMS/MMS, Google Chat, AIM, facebook, Yahoo!, etc. It was a beautiful phone and I miss it almost as much as I miss Windows Phone.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Amazing. Yeah, I heard good things about the Palm Pre.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Pidgin is still around, I got teams, discord and element on it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I had something similar, I don't recall everything it supported, but AIM was a thing then, lol.

Pidgin, some client on Linux. That was a long time ago.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

god, XMPP is an annoying protocol.

source: wrote the first xmpp/matrix bridge back in the day

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Shit on teams time! DAE hate Microsoft?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I've seen two of the icons, but don't know the other two. How...?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The main types of teams are:

Microsoft Teams
New Teams
Teams Classic
Teams for School
Teams Personal.

[-] [email protected] 145 points 1 week ago

Just one more teams app bro, trust me bro, that one will replace all the other ones bro

[-] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago

They should really make a Super Teams app

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago

Follow it up with Teams 64.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Teams 2000

Teams.NET

Teams Live

Teams 365

Teams with Copilot™

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Teams for Business. Teams 360. Teams series y.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Then Teams 64 with Knuckles

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You hear that Microsoft? We need another Teams app to add to the pile.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

I see your teams, and raise you: • Slack post-salesforce. • google hangouts • Google hangouts • increasingly, Discord.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Google is worse, but no one knows about it because no one uses it.

I think we're on google chat and google meet (both separate for some reason) now. Before we had hangouts which could do both, and google duo, for just video calling, before we had allo, but before that we had google talk.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Did you mean google hangouts or google chat or google meet or google voice or google messages?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Don't forget Duo, Allo, and Spaces

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

Oh. I see the problem. You're using Microsoft Teams. You're supposed to be using Microsoft Teams. We sent out a PSA specifically telling users to only use Microsoft Teams, and we still have those idiots incessantly using Microsoft Teams.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

From the people that brought you: "The Windows app" (formerly remote desktop)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Which doesn't support RDP connections to remote PCs. For that you need to use the mstsc once Remote Desktop bites the dust...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Which one is the Teams that used to be Microsoft Lync, then Skype for Business?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

New teams, or teams (new)?

Surpise its neither! Teams classic.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Teams for Windows Live™

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