Thank you everyone for your responses.
Hey there!
If you don't use it, what's the harm in letting it be upgraded?
I'm just curious, what bad things have you heard about it?
True - I don't use any sort of "chat" app at this time - guess I am one of the few that doesn't spend my day glued to my cell phone.
- so replacing Talk with Hangouts won't make much of a difference to me at this time. But, thinking of the future - things change, after all - if I DID want to use such an app, like most folks, I would prefer using one that works well and does what I want it to do. Obviously, the best thing to do is to try it out for myself. lol If I don't like it, it is easy enough to go into Hangouts and uninstall updates so that the app will roll back to Talk.
The two major complaints I have read about - and perhaps these have been fixed by now? - are that 1) you don't have control of your chat contact list - everyone you email ends up on your Hangouts contact list, not just those people that you would actually want or need to chat with and 2) you can't see who is on or off line, busy or available. I'm not sure why not having current status for your contacts is such a problem - after all, even if your contact is on line when you send them a message, it doesn't mean that she/he would respond immediately anyway - but it seems to be a big negative about the program in the eyes of many.
Here is a thread that mentions various problems others have with the app:
The new Hangouts. Am I missing something?
As far as updates are concerned, it is too bad that Google has an "all or nothing" approach, at least on Play Store. Too bad you can't selectively choose the apps for which you don't want to receive update notifications.
I see from the responses to my post that there are others that do indeed like the program, so that is encouraging. And, as I said, perhaps most of the "problems" commented upon have been fixed by now.
Holly
