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Mark Chang
@mchang · Product Manager, Google
We're rolling this out as quickly as we can!
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Abishek Muthian
@heavyinfo · CEO, TIMEBENDER TECHNOLOGIES
@mchang Congratulations ! It would be great if you could open up API to business to directly chat with customers when they ask GA about a product. http://imgur.com/a/wZYnU
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James Campbell
@jcampbell_05 · Founder, Bottr.co
@mchang Let me know when it's in the UK. Building a bot based startup and super interested.
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Chris Thomson
@chris_thomson1
@mchang Been playing around playing around for a few hours. So far so good. Getting great results from Assistant and good smart predictions too. I did get a random "action_result" result while talking to the assistant, though.
Not too interested about SMS support. Haven't sent an SMS in yearrrs. Probably the biggest thing on my wish-list is a web app. I don't like typing slowly on a mobile when I'm sat at my laptop, so I can see myself changing between Allo and other apps depending if I'm at my laptop or not (and possibly the recipient of the message doing the same if they are at their laptop). Second is adding someone by QR, ID, or email. Some people want to chat but don't want to give out their number.
Congrats on the release.
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Venkatesh Thallam
@vthallam · Founder @ Jobsplane
@mchang This looks great. Are you planning to build GIF's into the app? if not you should build, they are fun.
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Chris Thomson
@chris_thomson1
@vthallam It supports GIFs if you have them on your phone or use a keyboard that can search them. But yes, would be good if the app could search GIFs too :)
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Mickey Bennet
@werewookiee · Engineer, Global Sanchez Inc.
@mchang So far, I love it! When I ask assistant about herself, after answering, it'll ask me back, but whatever I answer, it will respond "I don't think that answers the question"
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Adam Snodgrass
@overra
@mchang I look forward to the day that there's a desktop client. Until then it's Hangouts for me and my friends 🙁 (edit: maybe add the features to Hangouts?)
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Julian Praest
@julian_praest · joolean.io - Design + Inf. Syst. student
@mchang Excited to see how the growth strategy and the user acquisition process to reach a "critical mass" is planned out - competing against the valuable network externalities/effects of existing, competing messaging applications; Allo is probably going to rely on the integration of other Google products, such as the Gboard's image/Gif searching functionalities and/ or the YT-community in that regard. Taking a brief look at its functionalities that it rolls out with lets me get the impression that it's primarily targeted at a younger audience (stickers, the unique "delighting" funct. such as shouting/whispering, as well as drawing on pictures) - but I miss a convenient videochatting feature. Looking forward to see it evolve in the next months!
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Onutz Verde
@utestme · ICT Marketing Manager
@chris_thomson1 GBoard
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Rakesh Mohan
@rakeshvihan · Android developer
@vthallam @mchang Yeah. And at the same time expecting the image share option on image suggestions by google assitance
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Abdul Umer
@abdulumer_ · Channel Marketing Manager
@heavyinfo @mchang Think API.AI acquisition ;) - I'd say what you're recommending is being experimented with now.
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Nick Budidharma
@nickbudi · Designer
@mchang I would love to use this as my main messaging app, but non-allo users aren't receiving my SMS messages, and I'm unable to set Allo as my default SMS app :(
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Some Guy
@ghobs91 · Head Of Winging It, Denarri
@mchang What was your team's logic for not integrating sms fallback into threads the way iMessage does it? Without that functionality, this is just another chat app that people have to convince their friends to install. I'm honestly baffled by the decision.
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Leonel More
@leonelmore · Build your product with us: 1950labs.com
@mchang can I do something to get early access?
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Leonel More
@leonelmore · Build your product with us: 1950labs.com
@kanyesboy @heavyinfo @mchang indeed ;)
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Pedro A. Wunderlich
@pddro · Designer, founder from Guatemala.
@mchang Pretty impressive that all the animations on the website are done by code. Great work. Can't wait for this to roll out in Latin America.
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Paul Kemp
@paul_s_kemp · The App Guy Podcast
@mchang thanks for building another great app. Soon, my iphone will have more useful Google apps on it than Apple's own native apps.
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Seth Rubenstein
@sethrubenstein · Lead Developer, Pew Research Center
@mchang Loving Allo so far... but seriously we need proper gif search and insert mechanism. Also letting Allo be our default SMS client would be nice to not have YET ANOTHER messaging app to interface with. iMessage's success isn't some mystery. Its because they seamlessly integrated SMS and Chat into one app.
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Steve Caldwell
@stevecaldwell · CEO, Strap
@mchang Any tricks to getting certain actions to work? Seems like alarms, etc aren't performing as advertised. 
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Amit Fulay
@amitfulay · Product, Google
@stevecaldwell set alarm works on android, not iOS
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Steve Caldwell
@stevecaldwell · CEO, Strap
@amitfulay ah ok. I'm sure the team is on it, but perhaps the assistant could be a bit more clear in its response to avoid confusion.
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Aya Shapir
@adividedbys
@mchang looking forward to checking it out.. when will it be available in international stores?
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Max Ade
@adesome · Wilbur Labs, Ex-Googler
@mchang Congrats on the launch, Mark! Everytime I see a dogfood email from you, it brings me back to the Startup Institute days...
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Tassilo Bestler
@tamabe
@heavyinfo why not use thismo messenger to get a direct line to your business: https://thismo.com/timebender_tech
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Lauren L Perfors
@laurenlperfors · President of Lawton Digital
@overra @mchang Agreed, it'd be great to consolidate this tool and Hangouts together. Right now Hangouts, Voice and now this tool are all disjointed. Would be ideal if they all became one kick-a$$ solution.
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