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I guess “meet” being separate makes sense but I have to say that in the Apple ecosystem “Duo” and “Hangouts” have their counterparts in the unified iMessage/Fac

I guess “meet” being separate makes sense but I have to say that in the Apple ecosystem “Duo” and “Hangouts” have their counterparts in the unified iMessage/FaceTime system.

izacus 7y ago
Hangouts is pretty much a dead product so I see it going away soon anyway.
- yoz-y 7y ago
  https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangouts-service-consolidation.html https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou... There is a timeline, at least for entreprise customers.
  - discreditable 7y ago
    They haven't stuck to that timeline at all. > Classic Hangouts will be retired for all G Suite customers starting in October 2019 Chat within Gmail is still hangouts. Hangouts.google.com still works. Users still use the hangouts apps. On the personal side, if you use Google Fi, SMS integration is still only available via Hangouts. This is a somewhat unique feature of Fi and Google Voice. You can send/receive SMS within Hangouts via browser or app all the same. It's not like the Messages app for web (which relies on your phone being online). They have a newer timeline at https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=9197125 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=...
    - arkanciscan 7y ago
      My guess is they have realized what terrible idea it is to get rid of Hangouts while everyone is still using it.
  - ProZsolt 7y ago
    But that Hangout is not this Hangout. This is a Slack competitor. Same name different product.
    - notatoad 7y ago
      no, this hangouts is still that hangouts. the slack competitor is "hangouts chat", the regular old hangouts app from 5 years ago is still going strong and most likely what somebody is talking about when they talk about hangouts. IIRC, hangouts chat is still only available to paid g-suite customers.
    - zamadatix 7y ago
      The slack-competitor app is only available on G-Suite and recently dropped the "Hangouts" from the name (now just "Chat" instead of "Hangouts Chat").
- lern_too_spel 7y ago
  I would say the same for Duo.
- buttersbrian 7y ago
  Hangouts isn't pushed, but it's a holdover until they finish the merge of duo/video chat into messages, and the GSuite consolidation of meet/chat. There's some cool things coming from google that should have been done earlier, but represents them finally bringing all the pieces together in meaningful manner.
  - qotgalaxy 7y ago
    That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.
  - danielscrubs 7y ago
    Sounds like business-speak for internal politics to me.
ProZsolt 7y ago
iMessage counterpart is Messages(with RCS)
zamadatix 7y ago
You used to be able to IM, voice chat, video chat, group versions of the former set, Google voice call Google voice sms, do all of the prior transparently on all of your devices, local sms, and local call from Hangouts. Then they decided that wasn't the way they wanted things and have been slowly killing it off for 5ish years now

I guess “meet” being separate makes sense but I have to say that in the Apple ecosystem “Duo” and “Hangouts” have their counterparts in the unified iMessage/FaceTime system.

izacus 7y ago

Hangouts is pretty much a dead product so I see it going away soon anyway.

yoz-y 7y ago
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangouts-service-consolidation.html https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2019/01/upcoming-hangou... There is a timeline, at least for entreprise customers.
- discreditable 7y ago
  They haven't stuck to that timeline at all. > Classic Hangouts will be retired for all G Suite customers starting in October 2019 Chat within Gmail is still hangouts. Hangouts.google.com still works. Users still use the hangouts apps. On the personal side, if you use Google Fi, SMS integration is still only available via Hangouts. This is a somewhat unique feature of Fi and Google Voice. You can send/receive SMS within Hangouts via browser or app all the same. It's not like the Messages app for web (which relies on your phone being online). They have a newer timeline at https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=9197125 https://support.google.com/a/answer/9197126?hl=en&ref_topic=...
  - arkanciscan 7y ago
    My guess is they have realized what terrible idea it is to get rid of Hangouts while everyone is still using it.
- ProZsolt 7y ago
  But that Hangout is not this Hangout. This is a Slack competitor. Same name different product.
  - notatoad 7y ago
    no, this hangouts is still that hangouts. the slack competitor is "hangouts chat", the regular old hangouts app from 5 years ago is still going strong and most likely what somebody is talking about when they talk about hangouts. IIRC, hangouts chat is still only available to paid g-suite customers.
  - zamadatix 7y ago
    The slack-competitor app is only available on G-Suite and recently dropped the "Hangouts" from the name (now just "Chat" instead of "Hangouts Chat").
lern_too_spel 7y ago
I would say the same for Duo.
buttersbrian 7y ago
Hangouts isn't pushed, but it's a holdover until they finish the merge of duo/video chat into messages, and the GSuite consolidation of meet/chat. There's some cool things coming from google that should have been done earlier, but represents them finally bringing all the pieces together in meaningful manner.
- qotgalaxy 7y ago
  That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.
- danielscrubs 7y ago
  Sounds like business-speak for internal politics to me.

ProZsolt 7y ago

iMessage counterpart is Messages(with RCS)

zamadatix 7y ago

You used to be able to IM, voice chat, video chat, group versions of the former set, Google voice call Google voice sms, do all of the prior transparently on all of your devices, local sms, and local call from Hangouts. Then they decided that wasn't the way they wanted things and have been slowly killing it off for 5ish years now