With Android 7.0 entering the final testing phase, Google began to adjust its chat tools.
According to foreign media such as the Reddit Forum, the default SMS and chat tools in the native Android 7.0 will be replaced by the original Messenger and Hangouts for Allo and Duo, and their biggest bright spot is to join the AI ​​artificial intelligence technology.
In fact, these two chat applications with AI artificial intelligence technology are not brand-new products, they have already made appearances at this year's Google I/O developer conference. Allo can not only bind your phone number by default, but also can quietly learn your input habits and give priority to the features and alternatives you may most want in different scenarios. The main role of Duo is to cooperate with Allo for video chat.
When Allo and Duo released it, they got a good applause. Obviously, Google's loyal users have been expecting these features for a long time. However, some privacy experts immediately criticized the Allo application for not using end-to-end encryption as the default feature, which could easily cause user information insecurity. The reason is that Allo has an incognito mode, which is the end-to-end encryption through the popular Signal communication protocol. This mode needs to be manually turned on for some conversations. And if you use Allo's Smart Reply feature, which allows applications to read your information and give a suggested reply - in this case, you need to completely disable the stealth mode.
It is understood that Google's earliest instant messaging tool was Google Talk 2005. In 2008, Google Talk entered the phone along with Android, which may be two or three years earlier than WeChat or Whatsapp. Google Talk uses a Gmail mailbox as the login account, and uses a chain of email contacts to obtain a considerable amount of users. Immediately following the arrival of the Google+ social network, Google incorporated GTalk into the new tool Hangouts.
In addition to sending and receiving text messages and hangouts, Hangouts, which was launched in 2013, can also directly call the mobile phone number, which was a more comprehensive product at the time. However, as Hangouts’ social relationship is still based on Google Mail account, the popularity of WhatsApp and FacebookMessenger has made Hangouts vulnerable to the increasing popularity of smartphones and the increasing number of communication tools that help users connect with acquaintances based on phonebooks or social networks. Threatened. The emergence of Allo and Duo is Google's latest effort to rival its rival Facebook.
After Allo and Duo appeared, a group of users worried that Hangout would be replaced. Although Google once promised users that Hangouts will continue to exist, there are still foreign media rumors that the emergence of Allo is likely to replace some of Hangouts's features. After all, how does Google decide that by the time of Android 7.0, Allo will become its only default communication method, and we need to make observations again.
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