Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google Babel: Explained!”.
Hey, google define babel a confused noise, typically that made by a number of voices all right, then this is google babble, explained hey. What’S up guys mkbhd here and let’s say i get a google talk message on my phone, my android phone as i’m walking into my apartment. I answer the message and i start having a conversation with this person and then i put my phone down and i’m done with the conversation and then i open up my tablet and i have a new notification, an unread message, but i already read that message. It’S already completed the conversation on my phone. That’S fine! I swipe to clear that message, but then i go back to my computer and i have a gmail tab open and i have another unread notification from google talk of the same completed conversation.
That is just one of the problems google has with their messaging platform, but the real problem right now is that google has multiple chat, services, multiple messaging and instant messaging services, and that’s the real problem is because they don’t talk to each other, their notifications, don’t sync You can read a conversation on one and you have to pick every single time. You want to chat with someone how you want to communicate with them. Do you want to use google talk? Do you want to use google voice? Do you want to use google plus messenger? Do you want to use gmail? What do you want to use? You want to use a google plus hangout? How do you communicate with this person? It’S a bit of a mess right now, so babel is the expected service that google will use to essentially brand these all into one social messaging platform that basically replaces all the ones that currently exist. It’S a pretty smart idea.
It may seem like a minor thing, but i’m expecting this to be a pretty solid thing, pretty big chunk of what google talks about at google i o this year in 2013.. So what’s battle going to be like what are the features going to be like? Well, the number one expected feature is it’s going to have a unified user interface across every single platform, so it’s kind of a mess already right now, for example, with google talk, you notice the way it looks on the desktop. You use a google talk. Conversation in google plus it’ll have a direct link to a hangout and it’ll have a bunch of different google plus related things, but if you use it in a gmail tab, it looks different from that and if you use it on your android phone, it looks even Different from that, and also knows, google plus messenger is totally separate. Randomly inside of the google plus app tucked away in there doesn’t talk to any other services for some reason, so they all look different and they all don’t talk to each other. So google babble, along with unifying all the different messaging services into one core service, it’ll, all look the same, so you know it’s the same service number two is that everything is expected to sync and talk to each other, so babble on every single platform will notify Itself, and if you pick up a conversation on your tablet, the notification will disappear from every other device that you own, that has babylon and number three expect. Video chat expect google plus hangouts to be very tightly integrated and expect your whole google plus account to be very tightly integrated into this service.
After all, it is google making it, and google already has a pretty good idea of how to build and integrate things with each other that it already controls so expect. Google plus hangouts expect a button inside of babel to directly take you to a video chat that will end up being a google plus hangout. In fact, it might even be called google plus babel, but i wouldn’t put money on that, but again expect the chat.
Hangout feature to be there and, lastly, number four expect a bunch of little improvements, for example, in the clients we use today, like google talk and google plus messenger, there are a bunch of little hiccups and quirks with, for example, group messaging so expect some improvements there. There is also said to be more than 800 emojis and emoticons, so sources close to it are pretty confident this is going to be a pretty well-built system and also things like sending pictures and maybe videos and small files, the way you can with skype now. So it’s really taking on the bulk of all the different services we have today, all at once now apple will be most successful and be able to separate itself from other services similar to this, which i’ll get to in a second. If it’s available everywhere and google’s pretty good at that right now, it kind of covers all its bases, even though they don’t overlap. But if babel is available everywhere, we can expect to see it right off the bat in ios, on android, with a chrome app with a windows app with an os 10 app and with a web app and that way, it’ll pretty much cover the majority of people Who are going to be using the service? There’S no talk really about a blackberry, os or windows phone app. Yet, but hey you never know.
That could be a priority later now, google’s not blind to the competition. What is the difference between this and imessage? Because imessage is basically apple’s equivalent of this well, the main difference is it’s availability. Right now i can’t use imessage if i don’t have a mac or some sort of ios device. So if you have an ipad or an iphone or a mac, you can use imessage and talk to your other friends who have those same devices but there’s no web client.
So your windows buddies won’t be able to talk to you on imessage and it kind of talks to your sms as well. So that’s nice if you have an iphone, but the idea of babel is to be able to use it everywhere on every single device. Even if you have a windows phone, you can go and log into your browser and continue conversations there. The same way you’d be able to with gmail.
So overall babel may seem like a minor thing at first, but i’ve gotten so many questions about it that it’s turned out to be a pretty major thing in my mind as we approach, when can we expect to see it? I would expect to see it alongside the next or latest version of android key lime pie at google. I o this year, so just a couple of weeks away from that and expect it it’s pretty much imminent. Now, almost the name is basically confirmed. We’Ve seen leaked screenshots of the user interface and little dialog boxes that have been popping up on people’s screens by accident.
So it’s pretty much confirmed that it’s going to be called babel, b-a-b-e-l uh. So if you guys are wondering it’s just around the corner and we should be seeing it sometime very soon, so that’s it just a quick video talking about google babble again, if you like videos like this, definitely be sure to hit that like button below and the Subscribe button, if you want to see more and uh, hopefully we’ll get some pretty awesome videos coming this week and next there are some awesome awesome videos coming up. I can just tell you that guarantee it either way. Thanks for watching and i’ll talk to you guys in the next one peace, and if you want bonus points, google throw chat.
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