{"id":200168,"date":"2017-02-24T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=200168"},"modified":"2017-02-24T11:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:18:27","slug":"google-allo-getting-a-desktop-web-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/200168-google-allo-getting-a-desktop-web-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Allo getting a desktop web app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Allo users will receive a web app to run the chat service on their desktop in the future, said Google vice-president of communications Nick Fox.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0WhatsApp competitor was announced in May 2016 &#8211;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/180368-googles-whatsapp-competitor-launched-in-south-africa.html\">launching in South Africa in September<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fox tweeted a screenshot of the desktop version of Allo, which is in &#8220;early development&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows what appears to be\u00a0the Google Assistant bot &#8211; which could result in Google bringing its\u00a0assistant to desktop users.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Still in early development, but coming to a desktop near you&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoogleAllo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoogleAllo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SneakPeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SneakPeek<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f7QNFH7IHO\">pic.twitter.com\/f7QNFH7IHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nick Fox (@thefox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thefox\/status\/834922302772916224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/180368-googles-whatsapp-competitor-launched-in-south-africa.html\">Google&#8217;s WhatsApp competitor launched in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Allo users will receive a web app to run the chat service on their desktop in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":200212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,37264],"class_list":["post-200168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-google-allo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200210,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200168\/revisions\/200210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}