Google has seven products with 1 billion users apiece including Gmail, YouTube and search, but it missed out on the new wave of messaging apps which are some of the world’s most popular apps.
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According to TechCrunch, Allo will be featuring a smart response option, allowing the app to provide you with 3-4 reply options, analyzing the reply of the person from the other end.
It was one of two messaging apps launched at Google I/O Wednesday. It works as a chatbot when you’re having a conversation to pull up relevant data like restaurants, movies, or just pictures of cats and stuff.
Android used to have the Messaging app for its SMS and MMS needs, but back with the release of KitKat, the company started moving all your text (and photo/video) messaging needs over to Hangouts.
The way we see it, Allo is not the iMessage competitor we are wishing for.
Earlier today, at Google I/O 2016, we got to meet Google’s latest communication apps, as the company announced Allo and Duo.
Allo will tie-in to your phone number, so you can message anyone in your contacts.
Originally brought to us as GrandCentral, Google acquired the phone-based service back in 2007 before reintroducing it as Google Voice a couple years later. You can ask Google questions the way you would a digital assistant such as Siri. Video chats in that app are often slow to load and eat up loads of bandwidth.
There’s another feature called “Knock-Knock” which shows you a preview feed of the incoming caller, so you can get an idea of who is there, what they’re doing and what the call might be about.
It’s the built-in Google assistant that makes all the difference, though.
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Both Allo and Duo are coming out over the summer. There are versions of emojis called Expressions, which let you swipe to create your own emotional outbursts and the ability to scribble over images, Snapchat-style. Sharing too, is an easy process with the app.
