Comments on: Google Goes All in for Messaging, Invests in Symphony https://bloggeek.me/google-messaging-symphony/ The leading authority on WebRTC Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:25:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tsahi Levent-Levi https://bloggeek.me/google-messaging-symphony/#comment-118301 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:42:28 +0000 https://bloggeek.me/?p=10054#comment-118301 In reply to Dean Bubley (@disruptivedean).

Thanks Dean.

This definitely isn’t about going after Slack – the UI and feature set isn’t built for that. The paradigm used to build the tool though, does lend a lot from Slack – as we see from other tools, such as Asana that redesigned their UI and it now looks Slack-like (though isn’t about being Slack either).

This is about messaging in highly regulated environments, where the first target is most probably Bloomberg.

]]> By: Dean Bubley (@disruptivedean) https://bloggeek.me/google-messaging-symphony/#comment-118300 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:19:24 +0000 https://bloggeek.me/?p=10054#comment-118300 I think the target here isn’t Slack, but Bloomberg, or maybe a combination of the two.

Bloomberg’s IM system had incredibly high ARPU when I last looked a couple of years ago.

This looks like a good analysis: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/21/banks-back-rival-to-bloomberg-messaging-system.html

(Also mentions Eikon messaging by Thomson Reuters)

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