Allo, is anybody out there? A brief history of Google's ill-fated messenger

Two days ago it was revealed that development for Allo was temporarily suspended while Google redoubles its efforts at spreading the gospel of RCS under the more marketable name "Chat." Even so, the company has reassured consumers that it is still committed to supporting Allo. But the news makes it hard not to visualize Allo being sent to the same "still supported" farm where other Google services like Hangouts reside. While Allo's fate hangs in limbo, let's take a look back at the service since its announcement, and speculate a bit on how it got there.  I actually wrote a more detailed retrospective of the service last summer for the one year anniversary, but in light of recent developments and the changes since then, we thought that an updated and simplified survey of the app's history was in order. Read More Allo, is anybody out there? A brief history of Google's ill-fated messenger was written by the awesome team at Android Police. Android Match ae http://androidmatch.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default