Comment by greggman
11 years ago
Long before I hangouts I had lots of issues with Google talk. I started numbering my messages as in
1 Hey Joe
2 How are things in SG
3 Are you going to meet me at the airport?
4 Or shall I take a cab?
5 In any case I'll be into the city by 7pm so we can grab dinner
etc.
What we found was that Google talk was dropping messages. Lots of them.
With no way to complain and no way to prove it I just stopped using Google Talk. It was really disappointing to see it do so poorly though. Like most of the rest of you it seemed like chat was a solved issue.
Did you ever grab dinner?
What did you switch to using? My mum has an iPad, my wife has an iPad and also an Android phone, I have a Mac, my brothers have Android phones; do I just spam everyone on each network (Messages / Talk / Hangouts / Skype)? I tend to now SMS everyone - at least that's mostly universal (but my mum will never get any messages).
I would use Skype but it enjoys eating battery as a hobby on both mobile and desktop/laptop.
I had the same issue. Anywhere in 80-100% of the messages get delivered. Lost interest quickly...