One of the few reasons I still use Hangouts amongst most of my family members is that I can use it both on my phone and on my computer — on multiple computers, in fact, whereas text messages are designed to go to the phone.
While there are work-arounds to get to text messages from the desktop (I use MightyText to that end), there’s always a sense of “This looks and feels like a different app.” So I’m kind of excited that Google’s bringing seamless connectivity to their Messages app (which does texting but with the potential for something beyond SMS and MMS) to the the desktop experience — something that I can recommend for relatives devices, I hope.
Of course, it’s kind of an ongoing joke about Google creating and supporting (and then dropping) an endless array of messaging apps, but this seems like a simple but powerful incremental add that should be broadly usable by anyone without necessarily changing their behavior (i.e., people are going to still be texting, just doing so more conveniently).
Google code offers hints that Android Messages is coming to a desktop near you
Android Messages on the web will allow you to use your PC and your desktop keyboard to send messages quicker. You’ll be able to receive and send messages on your phone and PC, so there’s no excuse in putting off replying to incoming texts. Also, kiss those embarrassing autocorrect mistakes goodbye!
It’s one of the reason I love Apple’s messaging. Everything, (calls, messages, and texts), shows up on all my devices. (And whether I’ve read them is synchronized).