![]() ![]() What’s more, Arora says that at the current run rate they are on target to hit one billion messages. However, the Chrome extension has found some very solid early adoption, attracting over 250K users, who were sending more than 2 million messages every day. Since then, it’s been more or less in beta and available solely as a Chrome extension. After several months of beta testing, the pair are today officially launching MightyText - an app that aims to give Android users their own version of Apple’s iMessage.Īfter launching as Texty in March 2011, the startup rebranded as MightyText in June. Especially when it comes to texting.Īrora says simply, “To me, it makes no sense that I have to have my phone in front of me to communicate … If I leave it in another room, or in the car, or at home, I essentially have to retrieve it to see who’s calling or to receive incoming texts.” So, Arora and Sangani set out on a mission to give Android users the ability to view and reply to text messages no matter what device they happened to be using. Arora tells us that, while his time at Google was defined by smart people and ambitious ideas like these, in development there was often a tendency to “over engineer” without thinking about “the average user.” He said that, while Google employees always had Gchat open and used Google Voice (or Wave while it was still alive), none of these products were able to effectively address the true value prop of communication tools for a mainstream audience: Syncing. Strangely, images sync in the conversation and, you can browse for images and it opens an edit window similar to the IOS app with options to create collage or enhance, yet the attach button does not work.During their lengthy careers at Google in both senior technical and product management roles, Maneesh Arora and Amit Sangani were able to geek out on products like AdSense, AdWords, and the now-defunct Google Health. ![]() When I want to, I sign into web interface to send. Lastly, the the desktop app does not sign the user out, but I can never attach images. But, the web app constantly signs the user out and the same rate of user account. And, not sure if it is related, but something is causing recipients to get repeated copies of messages (on my screen showing only once) as well as "failed" messages (with contacts actually getting).īoth the web and more so the desktop app are a little slow sending messages, which makes no sense since chatting apps have been around forever.Neither seems to sync contact info very well. In poor service area (ie my house where I have great wifi), messages are often stuck int the sending phase for a long time. ![]() The Android app does not seamlessly utilize both wifi or data plans as well as cell network. Of the all, android app has the best features, but it too needs some tweaking. However, I agree some improvements need to be made. I use the integrated messaging app on Android, Web Interface, Desktop app, and Ipad IOS app all the time. ![]()
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