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dalbin on Sept 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Say hello to Google Allo: a smarter messaging app

In many countries, "allo" is the first word of a phone conversation.

But Google Allo doesn't do any phone call, I think it will confuse users.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%C3%B4

dx034 on Sept 21, 2016 [–]

Especially because the two biggest competitors (FB messenger and Whatsapp) have phone calls in their chat apps. I think a lot of people will be disappointed finding out that you can't use voice in Allo.

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