mobile

Maybe this is just frustration on my part, but I just don't understand why Google doesn't push hangouts more. Just today, my kids are at a friends house and they wanted to video chat, so my friends have an iPhone. They say lets just Facetime, and I tell them I have an Android, so that's not possible. Then I get the, well maybe you should switch then comment. I have them download Hangouts, and then they attempt to give me their email address and they are not getting my Hangout's request. Which just makes them more persistent on saying, see... you wouldn't have this issue if you have an iPhone. Of course they gave me the wrong email address which caused the issue in the first place, and after that was corrected, everything worked pretty much as it should. Only issue right now is on the IOS side with the notification of the video call. Apparently this broke in the latest update. Needless to say, there are a ton of advantages for Google to push this, more so that it is cross-platform and everyone can video chat.

It's the only thing that drives me crazy with Android, (minus updates...) but not enough to make me switch back to IOS. Not that there is anything wrong with IOS, but it isn't for me. UGH!!!

Any thoughts why Google would not want to push this?