Google Allo is now available on the web

&gt; <i>Almost there! Just visit g.co&#x2F;alloforweb in your Chrome browser.</i><p>&gt; <i>Don&#x27;t have Chrome? Get it</i><p>Ah yes, we&#x27;re back in 2002 again.

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Google is a complete joke when it comes to understanding people.<p>Allo Duo Google Chat Google Meet<p>Four. Four different chatting applications. Whatsapp has one. Facebook has one. Apple has one. WeChat has one. Google has four.

It&#x27;s me, not you, Allo. I loathe communication apps that rely only on phone numbers and won&#x27;t work without access to one&#x27;s contacts&#x2F;address book. My phone number is highly important to me from a privacy angle and I don&#x27;t give it away willy-nilly. I&#x27;d feel a little more comfortable when this works with email addresses alone, which I have many of and use different ones for different purposes.

I&#x27;m hugely disappointed! And where&#x27;s Hangouts Chat? I think Google tries to implement some sort of diversity in their product line as well!

The screaming-monster image and the context-free exhortation to switch to Chrome (no, thanks!) do very little to inform me about what Allo is or why I would want to use it. This does not strike me as a particularly good design.

I wonder if this means Hangouts is going to be deprecated soon.

Did anyone else notice that QR code changes on reload? Is that simply for analytics? Or is there another purpose?

So no support for anything other than Chrome and no support for devices other than Android? Really?

At one point, Google, you had a preferred messaging position on my devices.<p>For me, from my perspective, you pissed it away.<p>&quot;Bye-bye&quot;