Google has confirmed that it stops the Allo smart messaging application to focus more on Messages application.
The Allo app will continue to run until March 2019, and will give users the choice export their chat history to the Messages app.
“Earlier this year, we stopped investing in Allo and brought back some of our favorites characteristics of – like Smart Reply, GIFs and support desktop with – in the Messages app,” said Matt Klainer, Google's VP of Consumer Communications Products in a Publication.
"We learned a lot from Allo, especially about the integration of machine learning features, such as the use of Google Assistant in messaging," he said, adding that more machine learning features will be integrated into the Google Duo video application.
According to Klainer, it's all part of Google's focus on "a simpler communication experience".
We want every Android device to have a great default messaging experience. We have worked closely with the mobile phone industry to upgrade SMS so that people from all over the world can more easily enjoy group chats, share high-quality photos analysisς και να λαμβάνουν αποδεικτικά delivery on any Android device.
He added that more than 175 million people already use the Messages app on mobile phones Android every month thanks to Google's partnerships with 40 mobile carriers and device manufacturers.
Ο Klainer ανακοίνωσε επίσης σχέδια της εταιρείας να επιτρέψει στους χρήστες του προγράμματος conversations Hangouts to add people outside their organization to a conversation. For example customers, suppliers and partners.
"By refocusing on the Messages app, and the Consumer Duo, and the Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet for group chats, we're focusing on providing simpler and more integrated communication," he concluded.
Allo had been announced May of 2016, and Google began to deploy smart messaging service in September of the same year.
Allo was Google's first messaging app to feature suggested "smart" responses that learn over time from user behavior. It supported sending emojis, photos and sketches, as well as standard text messages to Android and iOS devices.
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