Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Google announced the launch of a competing application FaceTime – RBC

application Presentation Duo

Photo: Eric Risberg / AP

The American company Google has announced the launch videomessendzhera Duo. As the Financial Times, the company strives to catch up on the applications market. Duo should become a competitor FaceTime by Apple

Google on Tuesday launches an application for video Duo, reports Financial Times. The publication notes that since Google is committed to catch up in the market for mobile applications. FT also indicates that the company aims to compete with the FaceTime, developed by Apple

Duo -. A simple application for video calls from one smartphone to another. There will be an option Knock Knock, which allows you to see the caller’s interlocutor before answering. It is also noted that users Duo can communicate with anyone who has a mobile phone number.

According to the Google division head for applications of mobile communications Nick Fox, the company hopes that the Duo will be the primary video application for smartphones on Android.

However, Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi doubted that Google will just get a large number of your application users. “They came too late to the party. Android users have already found other applications “, – she said

The application Duo will be presented before the messenger Allo, which will have to play an even greater role in Google positioning as a company that strives to keep pace with rapidly. changing habits of smartphone owners, notes FT

FaceTime -. video calling technology developed by Apple. It is an integral part of the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch players, starting with the fourth generation and enables video calls between Apple devices.

As pointed out by FT, Google hopes to take advantage of the fact that FaceTime can be used only by owners of Apple gadgets. The application is pre-installed on the company’s devices. In turn, Duo can be installed on any phone. It does not require a Google-account.

Google has already messenger Hangouts, which are available in video chats. It is installed on all devices with Android operating system.

The application interface Duo

Photo: Google via AP

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