As a general note to everyone: a lot of valid complaints about the lackluster features and lacking functionality or Hangouts, imperfections, etc, but here's the thing about Google I've noticed over the last 2 years being an Android enthusiast..
Google innovates and comes up with new ideas, apps, and features. Much more and better than Apple or any of the other competitors. And they will often introduce their new stuff when it's not quite perfected yet. Most of us have seen that with new Android versions and other new Google apps; when the new things are first given to us there are always these same complaints but if you fast forward a bit they almost always turn into great things. The guys at Google get excited about their new innovations as much as we do and they don't mind giving us almost "beta" versions of them to play with. Contrast that with Apple for example, who will take much longer to introduce something new, but generally when they do its a better initial experience than it is with Google's new thing (let's leave out their uncharacteristic Apple Maps fiasco for the sake of this point). It was like this with Google Drive at first, Google+, many new major Android versions, etc etc..
I love and much prefer Google's way, and that's why I've learned to not go crazy when the new experiments seem underwhelming at first. I understand and love the process and look forward to seeing where it all goes, which is almost always somewhere awesome.
So hangouts will have some time and I am very optimistic that this new idea has the potential to become something very very useful in due time, which we'll all grow to love soon enough.
I'm also a few beers deep, hence the long ramble. Happy Friday everyone :beer:
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