Five milestones in Google`s failed messaging app journey
(Android Central)

Remembering the numerous ups and downs of Google`s road to messaging ubiquity. Creating the best messaging app is a complicated problem to approach. Everybody`s always looking for a unified way of keeping in touch with their friends and family, but with so many different services finding success on different platforms and in different regions of the world, there`s just no way to rally wide enough support around a single product to truly solve messaging once and for all. Of course, that hasn`t stopped Google from trying, and from Google Talk to Hangouts and RCS messaging, the company has seen a lot of success — and a lot of failures — throughout the years. Even some of Google`s shuttered messaging platforms, like Allo, ended up paving the way for far more successful products. We certainly aren`t at the finish line of messaging services just yet, if such a thing even exists. In the meantime, we wanted to look back on some of Google`s major milestones in its journey to finally sh...